Wed Sep 6, 2023 – 7:07 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The legal team representing Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich observed on the first day of her trial that the judge overseeing the court case is clearly “not being led by the crown.”
“The judge is very clearly in charge of this courtroom,” commented The Democracy Fund (TDF) on X (formerly Twitter) yesterday.
“She is not being led by the crown.”
A confident-looking Lich and Chris Barber walked into an Ottawa courtroom to begin their four-week long trial for leading the Freedom Convoy on Tuesday morning.
The TDF said that the crown attorney’s opening statement “provided little insight into how the prosecution intends to prove its case,” adding that it looks like the crown will “attempt to show that Lich, and her co-accused, Chris Barber, exercised their influence to cause protesters to break the law.”
After some housekeeping rules were established, the court was shown an 11-minute video compilation of police footage that was put together by Constable Craig Barlow of the Ottawa Police Service’s cyber-crimes unit.
Barlow was the only witness to take the stand on Tuesday and testified about the video compilation which was
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