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Posted: Dec 23, 2020 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 23, 2020
Justice Donovan Molloy dismissed dozens of charges in November after a Crown prosecutor missed her flight to Hay River. (Emily Blake/CBC)
Dozens of charges thrown out by a Hay River judge last month could be getting a second chance in court.
Blair MacPherson, general counsel with the Yellowknife office of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada, said the Crown has filed appeals with the N.W.T. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal for some, not all, of the cases dismissed on Nov 9.
On that day, Justice Donovan Molloy dismissed 53 charges against 14 people on the docket for want of prosecution, because a Crown prosecutor missed her flight.
Posted: Dec 12, 2020 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 12, 2020
CBC is challenging a publication ban the prosecutor wants on information about the death of a 22-year-old woman in Yellowknife last May. The information came out in court during the sentencing of two people who plead guilty to helping cover up the death.(Walter Strong/CBC)
Arguing for a ban on details of an alleged murder in Yellowknife, a Crown prosecutor said that publication bans are sometimes more necessary in smaller populations such as the North than they are in large southern centres.
Blair MacPherson said in Northwest Territories Supreme Court on Wednesday that the CBC had made powerful and persuasive arguments, against the ban, but added they were arguments for a southern jurisdiction . we re asking for a decision that takes into account the context here.
Posted: Dec 10, 2020 7:00 AM CT | Last Updated: December 10, 2020
Jordan Nande and Lisa Brulé were each sentenced Wednesday to 10 months in jail and two years probation after pleading guilty to being accessories after the fact to murder in connection with Breanna Menacho s death.(Walter Strong/CBC)
Two people who helped cover up a killing in Yellowknife last spring have been sentenced to 10 months in jail and two years probation.
Jordan Nande and Lisa Brulé admitted they helped cover up the killing of 22-year-old Breanna Menacho. Her body was found in a Yellowknife apartment on May 6, according to the RCMP.
Devon Larabie is charged with murder in connection with Menacho s death. His preliminary inquiry is scheduled to take place in June.