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TORONTO 鈥?An Ontario judge made errors in assessing issues related to self-defence and unlawful arrest in the case of an stanley cup becher off-duty Toronto police officer convicted of assaulting a young man, prosecutors argued before Ontario top court on Thursday.The Crown is appealing Michael Theriault acquittal on charges of aggravated assault and obstruction of justice in the December 2016 beating of Dafonte Miller.Theriault was instead convicted of the lesser charge of assault in connection with the incident, which left Miller, who was 19 stanley thermos mug at the time, with a ruptured eye and other injuries. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Theriault brother, Christian Theriault, was also charged but was cleared on all counts a ruling the Crown is also challenging.In her submissions, Crown attorney Susan Reid said the trial judge erred in his analysis of the early portion of the confrontation, during which the brothers chased Miller between two homes and Michael Theriault body-checked him against a fence. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW While Ontario Superior Court Justice Joseph Di Luca acknowledged Miller would not have known his pursuers were se stanley cup eking to arrest him, the judge mistakenly focused only on Michael Theriault intentions in determining whether that series of events amounted to a reasonable use of force and a lawful attempt at arrest, Reid argued.Since Michael Theriault did not ident Ysph Monday s fair weather for southern Ontario slated to give way to a rainy Tuesday with possible thunderstorms, and then a midweek cold snap that could generate frost advisories
Part one of a two-part series looking at how a purported money-laundering scheme with ties to York Region allegedly caught one of Canada biggest banks in its web.A former Canadian banking executive who says he played an integral role in a $2.75 million loan to two men whove since been charged for money laundering by the RCMP, is blowing the whistle on his past employers聽alleged role in the聽suspected scheme.The man, whom we agreed not to identify, was a district manager at Roynat Capital, one of Canadas largest financial real estate companies聽from Feb. 2007 to Oct. stanley cups 2014. AR stanley website TICLE CONTINUES BELOW The private equity and venture capital arm of Scotiabank 鈥?Canadas third-largest bank 鈥?has more than $3 billion in loans and other financial products, according to聽a Scotiabank news release marking Roynats 50th聽anniversary in 2012.The man, whom we ;re calling Joseph, alleges his managers not only ignored his repeated objections to Roynats ongoing dealings with the two men facing charges 鈥?Nader Gramian-Nik, of Vaughan and Frederic Rayman, of Unionville 鈥?but that he was ultimately dismissed as a result of speaking out before another multimillion loan was extended to the men. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW They said I was crazy, Joseph said about how his superiors reacted to his concerns.Despite several at stanley cups uk tempts to speak with representatives at Scotiabank and Roynat, neither company provi