Refusing to accept a plea bargain for a bank teller who provided intelligence for robbers, including her boyfriend, was an error, Alberta’s top court ruled Thursday in reducing her sentence.
Trial judges aren’t required to “rubber stamp” plea bargains worked out between the Crown and defence, a prosecutor said Monday in supporting the sentence handed a bank teller who helped out a heist.
The lawyer for a Calgary massage therapist charged with sexually assaulting a client needs time to review disclosure before proceeding on the case. An agent for defence counsel Greg Dunn appeared in provincial court Thursday and asked that Greg Howden’s case be adjourned to early September.
Kenza Belakziz bank robbery insider outside the Calgary Court Centre, Belakziz, 22, pleaded guilty a week ago to conspiracy to commit robbery in connection with a Nov. 26, 2014, heist at a Mission Bank of Montreal where she worked.
The former bank teller jailed for her role in a brazen Calgary heist nearly four years ago will remain behind bars, for now.
A bank teller who pleaded guilty to aiding in a 2014 heist at the Mission branch where she worked has appealed her conviction and is asking for an interim release in the case that could force her to be deported from Canada.
Calgary lawyer Greg Dunn told VICE what that it means, if you’re defending your own life, you have to have a “reasonable belief that you’re in danger.”
Dunn had argued a medical report that indicated Belakziz, 24, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety.
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Changes are coming to the way drunk drivers are policed and prosecuted in Alberta with the provincial government set to issue a directive to police that will largely decriminalize impaired driving, CBC News has learned.
Saying it would bring the administration of justice into disrepute, a Calgary judge on Tuesday declined to sentence a Calgary woman to just six months for setting up a bank heist.
In Nov. 26, 2014 [the accused], a young teller provided information to her boyfriend and two other men to assist them in carrying out a bank robbery. Prosecutor Ryan Jenkins and defence counsel Greg Dunn want the judge hearing her case to sentence [the accused] to six months, less a day, in jail and place her on probation for two years.
The proposed sentence would give [the accused], a Moroccan citizen who has lived in North America for most of her life, a better shot at avoiding deportation, Dunn said.
Initially police arrested the three robbers, believing [the accused] was a victim before they realized it was an inside job. She was arrested in December 2014. Last week, she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a robbery.
The incident was one that “snowballed quickly,” said defence counsel for [the accused] Wednesday at the Medicine Hat Courthouse. And it was “uncharacteristic” of his 27-year-old client who has no prior criminal record. [The accused] will be allowed to serve his sentence over weekends.
The fatal shooting of a man thought to be working for a rival drug dealer garnered a Calgary man a nine-year sentence Monday.
[The accused] was already serving a manslaughter sentence for the December 2006 slaying of Victim 1 when he was given the latest stint in prison by Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Kristine Eidsvik for gunning down Victim 2 and dumping his body in a field east of Calgary.
[The accused] and the others were arrested Feb. 24, 2014, and because of late disclosure by the Crown, Kothari said, isn't set to go to trial until early 2018.
Hasson Wilson, Ivan Willis, Abraham Latife and Jamar Sterling are accused in a string of armed grocery store robberies, including one where a manager was kidnapped.
A frame grab from a video, recorded in November 2013, the man berates cabbie in an expletive-laced diatribe, hurling racist insults and comparing him to a bomb-packing terrorist. Courtesy of Global Calgary article.
The Calgary criminal lawyer for a man who verbally and physically attacked a city cabbie two years ago said his client offered an apology and paid compensation. And he claims that charges were laid by police for the videotaped assault but later dropped due to lack of evidence.
A man who was reportedly responsible for unleashing a racist tirade against a cab driver after leaving a company party in Calgary is out of a job and at the centre of public shaming online.
[The Accused], 29, was charged with uttering death threats in connection with an e-mail sent to the Calgary Fire Department in late May. The message indicated there was going to be a “machine gun attack” that would result in more than 1,000 people dead.
A young woman has been sentenced to one year behind bars in connection with a fatal crash in Oakridge last fall.
About two dozen people gathered Monday afternoon at the intersection where Kimberly Ellingson died on September 14th, 2013.
A man who threatened to use a machine gun to kill more than 1,000 people at last year’s Calgary Stampede has been sentenced to two years in jail.
