Thu Oct 12, 2023 – 7:54 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – After a hiatus of nearly three weeks, the trial for Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber resumed in an Ottawa courthouse Wednesday with the judge agreeing to allow the government to call eight more witnesses despite strong objections by the defense.
The trial, which has been on hold since September 22, has so far proceeded at a snail’s pace. The Crown has called only four of 22 planned witnesses to the stand.
During the 14th day of court proceedings on Wednesday, Justice Heather Perkins-McVey struck down a defense application calling for eight Crown civilian witnesses, who are downtown Ottawa residents and business owners, to not be allowed to testify.
The Democracy Fund (TDF), which is crowdfunding Lich’s legal costs, in a court update noted that the defense had argued “some unrelated mischief could be said to have been committed during the protest,” and that any evidence that these eight “civilian witnesses could present would be rendered irrelevant by this admission.”
The TDF pointed out that the Crown argued the civilian witnesses could “rebut the claim that the protest was peaceful and provide context to
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