Friday, November 24, 2006
IT IS INDEED A TIME TO CELEBRATE!!!!
A friend gave me some money to celebrate with a few beers. That was awfully nice of her.
Of course this will be done tonight. I'm going to go live on CBC Radio at 5:10pm today. Charles Live???? .....lol.....I'll be ok!!!
Thanks for all the private emails of congratulation!!!!..
Of course this will be done tonight. I'm going to go live on CBC Radio at 5:10pm today. Charles Live???? .....lol.....I'll be ok!!!
Thanks for all the private emails of congratulation!!!!..
SAINT JOHN POLICE FORCE ARREST!!!! NOT GUILTY!!!!!!
Judge acquits N.B. blogger on obstruction charge
Last Updated: Friday, November 24, 2006 | 11:53 AM AT
CBC News
A New Brunswick blogger who was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice while taking pictures at a protest in Saint John last summer has been acquitted.
Charles LeBlanc, who writes about poverty and politics on his website, was arrested and pinned to the ground by three police officers outside a business conference last June. A police officer later admitted to deleting a photo of himself from LeBlanc's camera.
LeBlanc maintained he did nothing different from any other journalist covering the event, but was singled out by Sgt. John Parks, the arresting officer.
Parks testified that he arrested LeBlanc partly because he was "scruffy" looking and carrying an unprofessional-looking digital camera. Parks also testified that LeBlanc challenged police authority at the event, and resisted arrest.
However, CBC videotape of the event, entered as evidence by the defence, contradicted police testimony that he was resisting arrest and causing problems, and Judge William McCarroll said the pictures proved beyond a reasonable doubt that LeBlanc did nothing wrong.
"There is such inconsistency between the testimony of Sgt. Parks and the CBC video that I find it unsafe to convict Mr. LeBlanc," he said in court.
McCarroll also said the officer had no right to look at or delete the photo from LeBlanc's camera without a search warrant, and that it should not have happened.
Last Updated: Friday, November 24, 2006 | 11:53 AM AT
CBC News
A New Brunswick blogger who was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice while taking pictures at a protest in Saint John last summer has been acquitted.
Charles LeBlanc, who writes about poverty and politics on his website, was arrested and pinned to the ground by three police officers outside a business conference last June. A police officer later admitted to deleting a photo of himself from LeBlanc's camera.
LeBlanc maintained he did nothing different from any other journalist covering the event, but was singled out by Sgt. John Parks, the arresting officer.
Parks testified that he arrested LeBlanc partly because he was "scruffy" looking and carrying an unprofessional-looking digital camera. Parks also testified that LeBlanc challenged police authority at the event, and resisted arrest.
However, CBC videotape of the event, entered as evidence by the defence, contradicted police testimony that he was resisting arrest and causing problems, and Judge William McCarroll said the pictures proved beyond a reasonable doubt that LeBlanc did nothing wrong.
"There is such inconsistency between the testimony of Sgt. Parks and the CBC video that I find it unsafe to convict Mr. LeBlanc," he said in court.
McCarroll also said the officer had no right to look at or delete the photo from LeBlanc's camera without a search warrant, and that it should not have happened.
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