Fri Sep 29, 2023 – 6:37 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – Anti-COVID lockdown Canadian Christian pastor Artur Pawlowski is appealing two convictions against him for giving a sermon to truckers participating in a border blockade in early 2022.
The Democracy Fund (TDF) said in a press release that it has retained Sarah Miller of JSS Barristers to assist Pawlowski in appealing a conviction of counseling mischief as well as another for breaching a release condition, which mandated that he “keep the peace” and behave.
The TDF noted that a Notice of Criminal Appeal was filed in an Alberta court on Monday.
According to the TDF, Pawlowski’s appeal will focus on a “matter of law.”
“Specifically, he is claiming that the trial judge erred in her interpretation of the Criminal Code and that the Crown failed to prove that he did not attend Coutts for the purpose of communicating information, which can be a defence to the crime of mischief,” the TDF said.
In the court documents, Pawlowski states that “the Crown failed to prove that there was an absence of legal justification for his speech, namely freedom of expression as enshrined in the Charter of Rights and Freedom.”
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