Vancouver Sun
The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court ruling that decided a Coquitlam RCMP officer facing a criminal charge related to a Taser incident should go to trial.
A provincial court judge had initially ruled that Cpl. Russ Hannibal’s Charter rights to a speedy trial had been breached by a 33-month delay in getting the case to trial.The Crown appealed, and the decision was overturned by the B.C. Supreme Court judge.
Hannibal appealed, but the Court of Appeal upheld the previous decision to send the matter back to provincial court for trial.
Hannibal was initially charged in 2002 with two counts of assault with a weapon stemming from two separate Taser incidents that occurred one day apart in August.
He went to trial in 2003 on one count and was acquitted.
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