Former court sheriff acquitted of sexual assault in N.W.T.
Former Nunavut court sheriff Phillip Verrault has been acquitted of sexually assaulting a woman in a Yellowknife hotel room two years ago.
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Former Nunavut court sheriff Phillip Verrault has been acquitted of sexually assaulting a woman in a Yellowknife hotel room two years ago.
Stephanie Whitecloud-Brass has been named a judge on the N.W.T. Territorial Court, replacing now-retired Judge Garth Malakoe.
A Yellowknife pub owner who is facing a $5,175 fine under the N.W.T.'s Public Health Act is heading to trial Thursday with a new lawyer, a new judge and a desire to put this all behind them.
In a complaint filed last year, an N.W.T. lawyer accused Judge Donovan Molloy of misconduct, citing a years-long pattern of "intimidating, insulting and belittling" behaviour often directed against lawyers and defendants in the courtroom.
A Whatì man was initially charged with murder, then manslaughter, then assault causing bodily harm after another man was found dead near Yellowknife's day shelter and sobering centre.