Plead Guilty or go to Campbellton
for a Psychiatric Evaluation
It is very
evident that Jenn Wambolt is an enemy of the Fredericton Police Department and
the Legal System. Note, I don’t say
Justice System, because often, that it not what is served up at the Fredericton
Courthouse. If you have ever needed
psychiatric care, especially psychiatric care that is caused by treatment by
the FPF, you may not be handled judicially. This woman is charged with a breach
of probation.
In court,
the Crown Attorney, Claude Hache, said there was reasonable grounds to send her
to Campbellton for Psychiatric evaluation but presented no evident to support
that claim. (He could have a degree in
Psychiatry, but this evidence was not submitted to the court.) He objected to a further adjournment of the
case.
The judge,
Pierre Dube, agreed with the defendant’s lawyer, L.A. Henry, and said the defendant
has a legitimate defence, as she presently is under the treatment of a psychiatrist. The Crown continued to make his objections,
and the judge cut him off.
The judge
ordered a new date be found for the continuation of the Hearing and after some
delay the date of May 30, 2013 was provided by Court Cst. Estey.
Really
would like to say that was it, but as we were leaving the courtroom (where
Sheriff’s officers had been positioned on either side of the doors, in
anticipation of an order to take the accused to Campbellton), Jenn’s husband
was confronted and told that he had to pay a $25.00 parking fine or be taken to
jail forthwith.
When did
parking fines merit a jail term? Isn’t Legal
Aid provided if there is a possibility of Jail for a crime? When did a parking
ticket become a criminal offence? This sounds like blackmail and/or
revenge.
May I say
how happy most of us will be when the new police chief is chosen? Hopefully, it will be someone from another
Province where the corruption that we see now will be eradicated.
By
Superwoman
5 comments:
Pretty good coverage, but there needs to be some evidence about the parking offense-people can say anything online. We also don't know whether this was a parking fine not paid from long ago, or something that just occurred. Again, people have this idea that you can't go to jail for a bylaw offence, and thats just not true.
However, in Kitchener Dudley George's brother gave a talk many years ago and was stopped by police 25 times on his way out of town. And during the heyday of protests under Mike Harris, people were routinely robbed of their constitutional rights of association, in fact several people were actually 'banned' from entering regional boundaries.
So this stuff is not new, and it is not exclusive to Fredericton, and it also should not be tolerated. However, in order for the public to believe claims online then a lot of evidence has to be available. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that courts and police can act without integrity, but there are also mentally ill people out there, so the rule in public opinion is evidence, evidence, evidence.
I think when people are sent s warrant like this, threatening jail, they need to go straight to legal aid and request a lawyer. Everyone is entitled to a lawyer to prove if there is any justification for jail for an unpaid ticket. I believe you don't go to jail for an unpaid ticket but you can go to jail when you disobey a judge's order to pay the ticket, so it becomes something different once it gets to court.
Yesterday the Crown Prosecutor tried to send Jenn for thirty days involuntary detention at a psychiatric facility and presented no motion or evidence to support his request. What is shocking is he seemed to fully expect the judge to agree without any law or grounds being argued or presented. Such a detention would have violated Jenn's Charter Right and Freedom to have an opportunity to prove there was no need for this - thank goodness there was an appropriate response from the judge.
These stories, such as Jenn's, are sickening. Too many charges these days are also for breeches of undertakings without the original charge actually having been proven.
If the Crown prosecutor thought Ms Wambolt sufficiently ill to ask she be sent to a psychiatric facility for thirty days, I presume he did not diligently do the pre-charge review - which has to evaluate health issues prior to charging, which obviously wasn't done...
A new police chief will be chosen who will be prepared and willing to continue covering up the crimes, negligence and corruption of Barry MacKnight's regime because the City and GNB can simply not afford to pay all the compensation claims that will come out if we get an "hones chief of police" (Actually, I think "honest chief of police" is an oxymoron...)
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