Free presentation by lawyer Jeffrey J. Gindin, Q.C., of GINDIN SEGAL Law, on Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. at the Millenium Library, 251 Donald Street. Registration required. Register online https://wpl.libcal.com/event/3459331
Presented in conjunction with Winnipeg Public Library.
It is important to know your rights and obligations when dealing with the police. Our guest lawyer will provide information on some of the questions that you may have such as: What if I am stopped by the police? When can the police search me? What if the police come to my home? What happens if I am detained?
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https://www.communitylegal.mb.ca/events/law-in-the-library-criminal-law-what-are-your-rights/
A bartender at the Carberry Motor Inn took the stand in Brandon Court of Queen’s Bench on Wednesday, recalling the evening that a cordial meet up between a group of men in the motel bar somehow turned fatal.
Sharlene Robertson testified she was working on Sept. 9, 2015, the night Garnet Baptisté was found severely injured in the motel parking lot and died as a result of his injuries.
A disgraced former archbishop at the centre of a sexual assault trial began serving his sentence, turning himself in after the Manitoba Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal this morning.
Seraphim Storheim was to spend at least several hours at the Remand Centre before being transferred to Headlingley Correctional Centre to begin serving an eight month sentence, his lawyer said.
Seraphim Storheim lawyer, Jeffrey J. Gindin, Q.C., says evidence could have exonerated his client
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Jeffrey J. Gindin, Q.C., who represents Seraphim Storheim, filed a notice of motion asking that the new evidence be heard when the case appears before Manitoba’s Court of Appeal on Friday.
In court documents, Gindin says the evidence relates to the victim’s visit with Storheim and Storheim’s relationship with one of the defence witnesses, Connie Kucharczyk, who helped Storheim entertain the boy during his stay
“The aforementioned evidence could reasonably, when taken with other evidence adduced at the trial, be expected to have affected the outcome of the trial,” Gindin wrote in a motion filed Oct. 17. “The evidence was not available by all due diligence at the time of the trial.”
Gindin declined to comment further about the new evidence. The Crown also declined to be interviewed.
Storheim free on bail
Storheim was convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting a boy who had come to visit him in Winnipeg in 1985.
The man testified that during that visit Storheim would routinely walk around naked and would sometimes lie naked on the floor and touch himself. The man testified that another time Storheim touched him and inspected his groin as he sat naked on a bed.
Storheim testified he talked to the boy about puberty and inspected his pyjama bottoms at the request of the boy, but denied anything inappropriate took place.
In his original appeal notice filed in July, Gindin said he was appealing on numerous grounds. The conviction “is contrary to law, evidence and the weight of the evidence,” Gindin wrote.
Mainella should have given greater credibility to Storheim’s evidence and should not have dismissed Kucharczyk’s evidence “due to bias” that did not exist, the defence lawyer suggested.
He also challenged the eight-month sentence handed to Storheim. Gindin had argued for no jail time, because Storheim’s reputation had been ruined and he didn’t have a criminal record.
“The sentence imposed was harsh and excessive having regard to the age, background and circumstances of the offence,” Gindin wrote.
Storheim was a priest in the Orthodox Church in America but he later rose to archbishop — the church’s highest-ranking cleric in Canada. He was placed on leave when he was arrested in 2010 and retired following his conviction.
The Orthodox Church in America has 700 parishes, missions and other institutions across North America. It is separate from other Orthodox churches such as the Greek Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is coming under fire for waiting until two byelections are held before releasing a final report into how social services failed a five-year-old girl who was murdered by her mother and stepfather.
For almost two years, a public inquiry examined the death of Phoenix Sinclair, who bounced in and out of foster care before being killed in 2005. Commissioner Ted Hughes was tasked with determining why the little girl slipped through the cracks and how her death went undiscovered for months.