Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 6, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada free october a9 witness disowns says she was pressured by police a officer seeks new murder trial Canadian press Toronto the recanted Testi Mony of a key witness and new forensic including Dan will figure in Appeal hearings that a former re map officer Hopes will free him from a life sen tence for the murder of his the Ontario court of Appeal May uphold Patrick Kellys conviction or Grant an which could mean a new trial for Kelly or an in this weeks first of a series of three in the Case the panel of judges will hear the key Crown witness from Kellys 1984 trial responding to questions posed by lawyers for Kelly and the Dawn Taber testified previously that she witnessed the accused push Jeanette Kelly to her death from the 17thfloor Balcony of the couples con Kelly claims that his wife lost her balance and accidentally fell off a Stool while trying to fix a rattle in the bal Cony a former police officer who now lives in has since signed affidavits saying she caved in to police Kelly Hopes to prove innocence pressure after 20 hours of questioning and was induced into believing she had witnessed a murder and lied at Kellys the which starts today and is expected to run three was ordered last fall by then Justice min by anticipating voter backlash in by elections but liberals not especially popular either by Jack Branswell Canadian press Carole Charette is the Type of voter who giving Quebec main parties fits these a lifetime she plans on Vot ing for the action Democrat ique Quebec third ranking political party in a by election today in Bertrand Riding North of Quebe cers will also vote in the Mon Treal Riding of Bourassa and in and Dup both in Eastern 34 and says Quebec politics need a major shake we need a real she for me to go Over is a really big Deal because i have always been red lib by elections Are often a Chance to get even with a government and after two years of health and education Quebe cers should be Ripe for revenge bad news for the parti the pm governments Strong major Ity in the legislature int at stake but the party is Well aware it might take a hit for the its making the fight a lot that for said Guy natural resources minister and the pcs chief organizer in the the message is starting to get through about the need to eliminate the he but it is not at the Speed wed it wont be a cakewalk for Daniel Johnsons who won three of the four Ridings in the 1994 Johnson was unpopular in recent polls and a poor showing could spark renewed questions about his we Are confident in three said Serge the liberals executive Duplessis is harder to Bertrand and a Muraska May be the Only Bourassa is considered a Safe Liberal seat and Dup Lessis has been pm for 21 if they the pm lose that Dup Lessis it will be a big Surprise and a personal defeat for Premier Lucien said Louis a University of Montreal political Sci the Bertrand famous for its ski and Golf also has become known recently for its lists of suspect Liberal Robert Therien won by 146 votes in 1994 but was turfed out last Spring after being found guilty of voter Therien was accused of voting Ille Gally and that something pm Candi Date Bernard Gilles Grenier wants voters to people were Hurt by that he but the pm has its own Monique the pm candidate in Bertrand in was found guilty of voting illegally in a municipal elec some local pm workers Are also miffed that after raising funds to Chal Lenge Therien she ran and won in another by election there will be a lot of pm support ers who will just stay Massi Cotte on the streets in people dont like the government cuts and grumble about a stubbornly High unemployment rate of 12 per cent for the theres also if they didst do it someone else would have had said Norman who will vote the action a coalition of soft nationalists and disenchanted May be a Factor if voters Are really fed up with the pm and Liber that could be especially True in a Riding that Borders on a seat held by party Leader Mario the liberals won Karoo Raska by fewer than 400 votes in Atlantic premiers nudged toward some form of Union by Chris Morris Canadian press Iep Ericton As Atlantic Canadas political leaders gather this week to see if they can Fash Ion brighter Dawn for the next Cen there faced with pressure to move toward some sort of Union to avoid remaining a Ward of the the four Atlantic premiers meet thursday and Friday in with prime minister Jean Chretien to discuss How to turn things around in perennially have not new Brunswick Premier Frank Mckenna sees it As an Opportunity to focus on the resurgent and newly emerging Atlantis Canada we need to be less hostage to Fate and that Means we have to be stronger and More Mckenna said in an its become apparent that weve never really presented our arguments to the government of Canada weve always accepted what weve been give and what weve usually been Given is opiate eve become addicted programs that have done nothing to change our Lon term who Marks a decade in 9 office later this believes he and the other Atlantic premiers have made Progress in improving the regions depressed but Michael executive Tor of the Vancouver based Fraser a conservative says most canadians still regard East Erners As second class citizens who mooch off the rest of the the i thing that has to be done for the Atlantic provinces to be taken seriously is they have to demonstrate some economic said at the there wholly and utterly dependent on transfers from the rest of the country and in that jul always be seen As lesser Walker and other analysts believe toe Atlantic provinces Are burdened with too Many Kajfes and too Roych government separate administrate for fewer than two Bullion people there will be Calls at toe today weve bad reductions in bureaucrat but As Long As we have four of every we May have gone far As we Peter 0brieuolttiecana dial federate of Aspen a Mamu Sivess Looby Listef he instructed the court to determine whether Fife new information from Label Aid Fiew scientific information said to on evidence at the trial mid be admissible in an cd flows be fitted yesterday that the Fiatt Sofen Safe evidence centres on Jeanette Kellys the Postino Steffi discovered that most of the dead woman nails were either been or lifted from the at the original Coroner Testi fied that such injuries would be consistent with someone who had clawed at a Balcony now a Justice department analysis has revealed particles of aluminium under her so clearly there was some damage Kelly said in an interview with gov and he the Coroner Indi Cates that kind of damage quite Possi Bly was caused by clawing at a hard object in order to save and now we know there was aluminium under her during the the prosecution argued that a Small scratch on Kellys nose had been inflicted by his breaking her fingernails As she fought for her but ctr news reports that the jus Tice department analysis ordered a decade after the trial stows no Trace of Kellys Dan on the Crown lawyer David Manley said Fri Day the initial hearing will be restricted to Tabers no Date has been set for a second hearing dealing with the scientific a conclusion by the three judge panel that the evidence would be admissible in an Appeal would trigger a third hearing that would effectively be an Appeal against the conviction of first degree the court could then order a new trial on the grounds that the new evidence was of a Type that might Lead to a Dif Ferent Finley confirmed Friday that the Crown wants the judges to go to the death scene to help weigh the a 47yearold former ramp drug unit will be present at this weeks having already been flown to Toronto from the West where he has been confined at a medi a Security prison near to deciding to order the Rock said the grounds for a new trial raised by lawyers Clayton Ruby and Gary setting cannot to lightly Dis 1 Fobe told the 1984 trial that she had lived at the Kellys condominium for months in 1980 after separating from her and that she had returned there March to find the couple the witness told the jury that Kellys wife had advised her that she planned to go to Italy and would like a lift to the and that while she waited in the Den she heard the couple arguing about a a scream and the noise of someone being struck were followed by Taber testified that on leaving the Den she saw Kelly standing Over his who was lying on the she said the accused picked his wife up and dropped her Over the Balcony in affidavits signed in 1993 and As Well As in interviews with lawyers on behalf of Taber said she had left the apartment after hear ing a violent argument and that she last saw Kellys wife lying unconscious on the Boot Camp expansion draws flak Canadian press Toronto Greg was eager to apply when he heard Ontario was opening its first so called Boot Camp for repeat Young it was called project turnaround and the 17yearold hoped the jails Tough military approach would steer his crime strewn life in a More promising he didst last on the night of just three weeks after arrive Greg not his real name and a fellow inmate kicked Down their dorm hot wired a Van and escaped into the police captured the duo the next morning in a Farmers Field but the embarrassment caused by the High profile escape damaged the Tion of the facility and the progressive conservative govern ment that had heavily promoted yet one month after the solicitor general Bob Runciman is continuing plans to expand the Boot Camp method across the is Back at a detention Centre awaiting trial for escaping the teen expressed Surprise at the governments plans to expand the painting a picture of a Strug gling institution that can barely con Tain its charges despite enforcing regimented drills and no they control Greg said of the after a Greg said he grew sick of the the Yelling and the shortly after he he refused to participate in the pro ;