Sex-abuse raps reinstated
Ontario, Canada -
A CORNWALL lawyer implicated in one of Canada's most notorious investigations into sexual abuse must stand trial again on charges he molested boys, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled yesterday. During a rarely granted oral hearing, the high court "dismissed from the bench" Jacques Leduc's application to appeal an Ontario court ruling last summer that overturned a third court's decision to stay the charges against him and award him nearly $300,000 in damages.
Leduc, the former legal counsel for the Archdiocese of Alexandria-Cornwall, was charged in 1998 with eight counts of sexual exploitation involving three teenage boys after Project Truth, a massive OPP probe into sex allegations, named him and several prominent Cornwall-area individuals as suspects.
The case was tossed out in March 2001 after defence lawyers convinced Superior Court Justice James Chadwick that the Crown had deliberately withheld evidence.
Ontario's Court of Appeal overturned that ruling in July, calling the finding "entirely unsupported by the record" and "so clearly wrong that it does amount to an injustice."
Read the article at Ottawa Sun Online dated January 13, 2004
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A CORNWALL lawyer implicated in one of Canada's most notorious investigations into sexual abuse must stand trial again on charges he molested boys, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled yesterday. During a rarely granted oral hearing, the high court "dismissed from the bench" Jacques Leduc's application to appeal an Ontario court ruling last summer that overturned a third court's decision to stay the charges against him and award him nearly $300,000 in damages.
Leduc, the former legal counsel for the Archdiocese of Alexandria-Cornwall, was charged in 1998 with eight counts of sexual exploitation involving three teenage boys after Project Truth, a massive OPP probe into sex allegations, named him and several prominent Cornwall-area individuals as suspects.
The case was tossed out in March 2001 after defence lawyers convinced Superior Court Justice James Chadwick that the Crown had deliberately withheld evidence.
Ontario's Court of Appeal overturned that ruling in July, calling the finding "entirely unsupported by the record" and "so clearly wrong that it does amount to an injustice."
Read the article at Ottawa Sun Online dated January 13, 2004
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