WHAT IN THE NAME OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, IS GOING ON? MORE WATERLOO REGION POLICE & CROWN INCOMPETENCE?

Today's Waterloo Region Record carries a front page story about an alleged rapist walking free courtesy of Justice McKay (Yup the same judge who convicted the recent sex assault victim). The good Justice had help of course, specifically from the Waterloo Regional Police and the local Crown Prosecutor's office. Or at least that's what we are advised in this Record article. The title of the story is "Accused rapist avoids prosecution due to delays in bringing case to trial". The judge suggested that the vast majority of the delay was caused by the Crown being unable/unwilling to provide evidence to the defence in a timely manner. There was also a suggestion that the Police and Crown together somehow botched the investigation by the police firstly doing one combined investigation for two different incidents, followed by the Crown insisting on two separate investigations. Much of the delay apparently flowed from the police tardiness in so doing as the Crown requested. ........................................................................................................................... All of this is in recent light of two grotesque police and Court incidents in Waterloo Region. The most recent was an officer attacking and assaulting a Black woman on her own front porch, possibly because she rejected illegal orders to identify herself to a police officer. The earlier incident was the police, prosecuters and Judge McKay convicting a woman who's complaint led to a conviction of her ex-husband but then she was convicted of and fined for releasing the judge's decision to select parties contrary to a publiction ban. Now this third judicial atrocity. Is the Waterloo Region Record sending a loud message to the public? Even the defence lawyer for the accused rapist suggested that systemic delays in our court system come with costs including "...undermining of public confidence in the system". I would suggest that in this particular case that an accused rapist walking free based upon delays since he was charged in the fall of 2019 will also very effectively send the message that our courts are stupid, out of touch, incompetent etc. I wonder if the Waterloo Region Record have had enough of being on board and facillatating public confidence in a system that does not deserve it? ...................................................................................................................................... There have been far too many asinine judicial decisions over the years. Sending Rodney Lambka to jail for defending his father, himself and his home is one of them. Acquitting Officer Dearing after shooting a fleeing, unarmed burglary suspect is another. The shooting multiple times of a young man on Brybeck Cres. in Kitchener several years ago is another. The young man was sufferring from mental health issues but did not deserve to be shot six or seven times just because a local police officer knew that he would not be held to serious account. That shooting reminds me of the murder of the 18 year old young man (Sammy Yatin) on a trolley bus in Toronto years ago. In that case he was shot by a police officer nine times despite the victim collapsing to the floor of the empty bus after three shots. The officer was eventually convicted of attempted murder despite Sammy Yatin dieing from his injuries. In a convoluted decision the juru suggested that the initial volley was legal but the followup shots were not. Then they suggested that it was the initial shots that were fatal not ther followup shots. What a pile of judicial pus!