One of the men convicted in a high-profile terrorism case involving a plot to derail a Via Rail train wants access to a psychiatric report about his co-accused, arguing that its findings could result in him having his convictions overturned.
It’s an argument that has “merit,” according to Ontario’s top court, which is now weighing whether to turn over the report.
Raed Jaser and Chiheb Esseghaier were tried together and convicted by a jury in 2015 of a number of terrorism-related offences, though only Esseghaier was found guilty of conspiring to derail the Via Rail passenger train from New York to Toronto. Jurors deadlocked on that charge in relation to Jaser.
This is the sort of bullshit one comes to expect of our justice system.
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