Mon Sep 11, 2023 – 6:12 pm EDTMon Sep 11, 2023 – 6:13 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– Late last week during the third and fourth days of the trial for Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, the presiding judge reportedly noted her unhappiness with the Crown after it submitted thousands of pages of evidence against the protest organizers all at once.
The Democracy Fund (TDF), which is crowdfunding Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich’s legal costs, noted that the prosecution “submitted 4,000 pages of digital chats/messages as part of disclosure by August 1, but is now seeking to delineate about 2,000 pages it wishes to specifically use as evidence.”
Lich’s lawyer Lawrence Greenspon, per the TDF, noted that the Crown’s “approach to disclosure, what they are relying upon, and [the] lately brought Carter application are causing [the] defense to have to review already viewed disclosure.”
TDF added that this is a “monumental task, especially when you are in the midst of trial.”
In a day four trial update released today, the TDF said that the defense “pointed to the Crown expanding the scope of disclosed communications it intended to rely upon at
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