Decision adjourned on compelled statement argument at fatal THC-impaired driving trial
Judge to decide June 7 if Taylor Kennedy believed she had to tell police she used drugs the night before crash that killed Baeleigh Maurice.
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Judge to decide June 7 if Taylor Kennedy believed she had to tell police she used drugs the night before crash that killed Baeleigh Maurice.
A date has been set for a Saskatoon judge to decide whether a woman’s admission to consuming drugs can be used in her trial.
A Saskatoon Provincial Court judge will determine whether testimony from a woman, charged with impaired driving causing the death of a child, will be used as evidence in her trial.
A Saskatoon trial judge has reserved her decision on whether a driver in a fatal collision will have her confession of drug use become part of the trial evidence.
Closing arguments were heard in a voir dire in Taylor Kennedy’s case in Saskatoon court on Friday, her lawyer arguing that statements she made in 2021 were compelled by police.