Moncton, N.B. (Canadian Press) – The RCMP in New Brunswick have launched an internal review into their handling of a case involving a man acquitted of impaired driving causing death in a crash that killed a teenage girl.
Alexander Thomas Beers of Hillsborough, N.B., was found not guilty last month in the June 27, 2007, crash that killed 14-year-old Satara Annick Steeves.
The presiding judge excluded a key piece of evidence from the trial – a breathalyzer test taken by Beers – because of a police procedural error.
Beers’s lawyer had argued that RCMP Sgt. Jeff Johnston intimidated Beers and legal aid lawyer Yves Robichaud the night of the crash in Moncton.
The court heard that after Beers refused the breathalyzer on Robichaud’s advice, the lawyer was called again and Johnston threatened to charge him with counselling an offence.
The RCMP says its review could take several weeks to complete.
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