Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 20, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Aid Winnipeg fun Duaim bin 2000 Manitoba crowns grumble Over fees paid lawyer prosecutors Biu tops by Mike Mclntyre Manitoba Crown attorneys Are questioning the govern ments priorities after learn ing an Ontario lawyer was paid More than to prosecute a local criminal Michael code was hired by the province to represent them in the trial against Gordon a longtime Legal activist charged with threaten ing two Manitoba codes which includes All expenses involved in the 10 trips he made Between Toronto and is More than any Manitoba Crown makes for a full year of this fits right into what weve been about the government willing to pay outside crowns More than their own inhouse said Murray Conklin of the Manitoba association of Crown Manitoba prosecutors Are among the lowest paid in Canada and have been working without a contract for the past eight they voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action earlier this month if the government refuses to Budge on the key Issue of no strike Date has been code was brought in to handle the Case to avoid an awkward and unusual As the victims of gillespies threats were the chief Justice of the Manitoba court of Appeal and a Veter an Queens Bench since every local lawyer has Likely appeared before the two judges in the past and would continue to do so in the future Justice officials thought an outside prosecutor was the Best other options under the recently Cre ated Independent prosecutions policy included using a local lawyer in Pri vate practice or a Crown from another this is one of those rare cases where we needed to absolutely Dis Tance ourselves from the i didst want it to seem that we had a personal vendetta against Deputy attorney general Bruce who authorized the hiring of said Gillespie was convicted of contempt of court in september and received a two month jail he has five prior related convictions for abusing Justice officials and lost his attempt to overturn the conviction and sentence in the Manitoba court of Appeal code flew in from Ontario to argue the Appeal and agreed the Cost of jus Tice was clearly it is not Cost effective if you can retain local counsel to do a Case like its a but there were circumstances in this Case that made it Wise to do what they he code said the Case should have Only lasted one and Cost less than but Gillespie dragged out the process through a series of Legal Chal Lenges and code say How much of the Money he will actually but said it will be a tiny percentage of the defence lawyer Fred Sandhu said Gillespie could be out on parole with in two nip reopens stress line in farm country the provinces farm and Rural stress line has been reactivated by the nip to Deal with ongoing financial and weather problems in farm there Are issues in Rural Manitoba that Are different that Urban agriculture minister Rosann Wowchuk said Rural people connect to Rural the Tollfree phone which oper ates from 10 to 9 monday to will be staffed by Active or recently Active they will offer a sympathetic ear and referrals for financial assistance or men Tal health French language ser vices Are available on Rural residents with indirect connections to farming can also Call the theres a need for said Keystone agricultural producers president Don noting that a similar line in Saskatchewan is getting More and More it might be the right time of Dewar with Christmas and year end accounting the stress line was discontinued by the former tory government about five years Wowchuk it will Cost about a year to including Startup costs for train ing an advisory committee including Church groups and the Manitoba association of women shelters will oversee implementation of the Rural residents needing help Are invited to Call 1866forfarm 1866367 tips pour in on yuletide Bandit Winnipeg police continue to sift through a pile of tips Treyve received in an Effort to Nab the yuletide weve received and continue to receive lots of said Bob John so far weve had Between 70 and 75 and were working through them Many of the tips poured in after police released a surveillance tape taken at the scene of the the Brazen thief robbed an armoured car guard in Broad Daylight at Polo Park shopping Centre on the Bandit confronted the guard out Side the Cibic Branch at the mall and opened the two traded shots and police believe the Crook was injured in the leg by a Bullet before he grabbed the guards Money bag and escaped in a stolen shortly after the police were notified that a White woman in her 20s purchased a number of medical sup plies from the pharm save drug store at Keewatin Street and Logan police believe the woman May have been attempting to help the thief dress his the stolen car used by the robber was found with bloodstains in the front seat near the police believe the same Man is responsible for at least three other Christmas time armoured car holdups in the City since police Are encouraging anyone who May have 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