Tue Sep 12, 2023 – 10:52 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – On the fifth day of the trial for Freedom Convoy leaders, Tamara Lich’s lawyer argued against allowing the Crown to be allowed to submit evidence to the court from local civilians who claimed the truckers’ horn-honking affected their well-being.
On Monday, Justice Heather Perkins-McVey nevertheless allotted two more weeks for court proceedings to take place, mainly due to the Crown wanting to include a total of nine witnesses it says will give “observational testimony” to try and bolster its case against Lich and Barber.
Lich’s lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon, told the court, “This is not the trial of the Freedom Convoy,” or in effect a trial against all of those who participated in the protest, in arguing against allowing the witnesses’ testimony to be submitted to the court.
In an update from the fifth day of court proceedings held Monday, The Democracy Fund (TDF), which is crowdfunding Lich’s legal costs, said that the day began with an “argument about the admissibility of evidence from nine civilian witnesses the Crown is seeking to call.”
The TDF noted that the Crown claimed that the witnesses would “give evidence with
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