Immigration: Vancouver Police

Witness Testimony Dept: In a letter sent Wednesday to the attorney-general's ministry, BCCLA executive director David Eby argued new evidence arose during the just-completed coroner's inquest into the August 2007 death of Boyd, who was shot eight times by Const. Lee Chipperfield, according to Vancouver Sun. "We have found several troubling contradictions between the 2009 CJB summary and inquest witness testimony, on key points, that lead us to believe a different decision might be arrived at concerning criminal charges," Eby said in his letter to the government and a special prosecutor should review the Crown's decision not to lay criminal charges against a Vancouver police officer in the shooting death of a mentally ill man, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association says. B.C.'s criminal justice branch CJB ruled in August 2009 there was "insufficient evidence" to suggest the officer's use of force was excessive, but the BCCLA argues that decision should now be revisited. As reported in the news.
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