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Mountie sued
by former suspect now heads Sherwood Park detachment
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By ANDREA SANDS, EDMONTON
SUN, January 20, 3005
The new officer in charge of
Strathcona County's RCMP detachment confirmed yesterday he was
one of several cops successfully sued by Jason Dix, a former
suspect in a double-murder case that remains unsolved. And while
Insp. Gary Steinke's new post in Sherwood Park raised questions
about his potential future involvement in the murder case, Steinke
insisted he'll be responsible in his role.
"This is really unfortunate
that you guys have to ask about that, a case that's so old,"
Steinke said yesterday.
"I will be impartial,
whatever comes up. The case is still open and we're keeping our
options open.
"Nothing's going to change
because I'm here."
The president of the Criminal
Trial Lawyers' Association said that, "strictly speaking,"
the RCMP decide who will be the officer in charge of any detachment.
"It's understandable how
a member of the public may have a negative perception with regards
to the findings of the Dix case," said Rod Gregory.
And high-profile defence lawyer
Peter Royal said questions around a possible conflict of interest
are "bad enough," but it seems "outrageous"
that the RCMP promoted Steinke from a corporal to a sergeant
and now to an inspector.
"I don't understand how
he's promotable in light of this unchallenged, unappealed finding
that he's been liable for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment."
Dix spent 22 months in jail
after being charged with the Oct. 1, 1994, execution-style shootings
of James Deiter, 24, and Tim Orydzuk, 33, at a Sherwood Park
recycling plant.
Dix sued the Crown and RCMP
on Feb. 1, 1999, after murder charges against him were dismissed
on Sept. 3, 1998.
He was awarded $764,863 in
damages for his malicious prosecution lawsuit, after Court of
Queen's Bench Justice Keith Ritter said in a June 2002 decision
that police and prosecutors were "legally cloaked in malice."
Ritter called some of the police
tactics "reprehensible" and said police had breached
many of Dix's charter rights.
Steinke was one of six cops
Ritter held civilly liable.
But the commanding officer
for the RCMP in Alberta told the Sun yesterday he has "full
confidence" in Steinke.
"Gary is held in very
high regard and the other investigation, as you know, was quite
awhile ago and we've taken notice of what the courts have told
us about our operational procedures and have amended our procedures
accordingly," said Assistant Commissioner Bill Sweeney.
The RCMP major crimes unit
- not Steinke - will direct investigations into the homicides
of Deiter and Orydzuk, Sweeney added.
"He manages the detachment
operations so it's far removed from being actually directly involved
in the investigation."
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Driskell
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Murrin
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Nelson
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Parsons
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Sophonow
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Staples
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Truscott
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Walchuk
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