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Axworthy's
conflict | the Popowich
settlement | Dueck's bad faith
| Gerald Morris: corruption of
the justice community began long ago | StarPhoenix editorial
and previous SP report | Government
lawyer Don McKillop, January 2002 |
the Popowich
settlement | Dueck's bad faith
| Gerald Morris: corruption of
the justice community began long ago | lawsuit
comes to trial | MacNeil
Clinic report from 1987 |
What they are saying in the
law journals: Conflicts
of interest |The Seven Deadly
Sins of prosecutors | Lessons
from the Proulx case | Courageous prosecutor Terry
Hinz | Miazga | Hansen | Quinney
| Defence lawyers who perhaps love the Crown too much : Holgate
| the lawyers in the following waltzes of their clients to guilty
verdicts: |
Martensville
Nightmare won't go away: 2006
- Geoff Dufour
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- Sermonette on this topic
- There is reasonable litigation
(suing the government for wrongful prosecution) and then there
are the lawyers who take reasonable litigation and behave outrageously
outraging reasonable people. Litigation on crack?
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- Geoff Dufour sues StarPhoenix
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- November 24,
2004-It wasn't that the StarPhoenix disclosed the information
given them by Justice Minister Frank Quennell that got the lawyer's
panties in a knot. At least that what he says in a lawsuit against
the StarPhoenix. No, Geoff Dufour objected to the StarPhoenix
publishing the remarks of a colleague, Robert Stephenson, that
the terms of the settlement raise a "red flag".
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- Mr. Dufour
says in his claim that this term is damaging to his reputation.
He is also considering going after Stephenson.
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- Martensville
payout raises "red flags" | Sterlings stand by settlement
split
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- I have already said most of
what I have to say about Dufour so it is probably beside the
point to use the adjective "avaricious."
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- It is worth noting that Justice
Minister Frank Quennell, Dufour and StarPhoenix lawyer Grant
Currie all used to work at Robertson Stromberg.
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- The offices of Balfour Moss
prepared the claim on Dufour's behalf.
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- Now that Saskatchewan lawyers
have drained the bank accounts of most people in Saskatchewan
it seems only right that they should go after each other.
Sterlings settle
Geoff Dufour
In early August, 2002, Geoff
Dufour approached Richard Klassen offering to be his lawyer.
He said he could get a setttlement much more quickly than Klassen
could on his own. He could be up to speed and ready to go for
exams for discovery within 3 weeks.
He said: "I bring to the
table my experience in dealing with these government people.
"
He also clearly indicated that
while he didn't think Klassen needed a lawyer, "If I take
you (Klassen) on, you are to disassociate yourself from everyone
not connected to the case, including Borden and Holgate (counsel
for the other plaintiffs in the $10M+ lawsuit)." Dufour
told Klassen he would have to work with him and him only, , spend
day and night with him and to keep this secret even from his
wife, another plaintiff in the suit represented by Borden Holgate.
He could not speak to the media.
Dufour speculated that Klassen
would not receive as much as Popowich, because Popowich was a
police officer and Klassen an ordinary civilian. Richard Klassen
himself would get "maybe a million dollars," As for
the others in the claim? Dale and Anita (foster parents for the
Ross children), including (Ron and Linda Sterling in the Martensville
case who were not yet his clients) they would receive much less
than Popowich. "Maybe it t would amount to a car and a pizza."
It is rare that a cop is falsely
accused of a sexual offence. It happened to Popowich and he was
rightfully compensated. The notion that because he is a cop his
reputation is more important than that of any other citizen is
one which must be challenged. More often than not it is more
marginalized people -- like the Klassens, the Kvellos, the Rosses
and Travis Sterling -- who find themselves railroaded to court.
People like David Milgaard,
Guy Paul Morin, Tom
Sophonow, Greg Parsons,
and Chris McCullough.
The outcomes of these cases are widely varied, depending on the
integrity of their litigators and the degree of public sympathy
they could command.
Judge Paul Hrabinsky's speech
about then-Sgt. Dueck's reputation at the sentencing hearing
of John and Johanna Lucas for criminal defamation against him
is a case in point. The Lucases went to prison even though most
of what they had alleged about Dueck was true. Dueck has benefited
greatly from having deceived a judge. (See Judge
Hrabinsky's secret court and the acquittal
of Richard Klassen and Sheila Steele for having made almost
identical allegations)
At the time Dufour approached
Klassen he was not yet representing the Sterlings. He was still
trawling for old files for which he could get some quick settlements
and his per centage. By the time The Fifth Estate program
Hell to Pay aired, he most certainly had the Sterlings
in tow. This would possibly explain why the story was not as
aggressive in proclaiming the innocence of Travis.
Travis Sterling remains the
most wrongfully treated person in the entire Martensville fiasco.
He becme the sacrificial lamb whose conviction allowed the government
to save face. A public prosecutions office hellbent on getting
convictions rather than serving the public need to discover the
truth in a court of law. Hugh Harradance was appointed by the
court to be Travis Sterling's legal counsel. Harradance conveniently
neglected to defend one of the charges against Travis even though
there was powerful evidence for such a defence. Now Harradance
is running inquests and inquiries, useless exercises which, nonetheless
provide nice pay checks for the person running them. Such high
profile appointments generally lead to the bench.
Dufour could well have aspirations
to the bench. He is definitely into maintaining the status
quo regarding secrecy and under the table deals.
From: Geoff
Dufour <g.dufour@dufourlaw.com>
Date: Fri Feb 28, 2003 12:18:09 PM Canada/Central
To: injusticebusters@shaw.ca
Subject: Breach of Court Ordered Publication Ban
To: Sheila Steele
Injustice Busters
From: Geoffrey D. Dufour
Dufour Scott Phelps & Mason
Re: Naming XXXXXXX
Please be advised that we represent XXXXXXX
Your site names XXXXXXX. You are aware, of
course, that a court
order prohibits the publication of XXXXXX's name. We demand that
you remove it from your website immediately.
Yours truly,
Geoffrey D. Dufour
injusticebusters has complied with this demand. It
has not ever been the intention on this website to further embarrass
people who have been brought into the spotlight by a corrupt
justice system. By the same token, we want to give every falsely
accused person an opportunity to his/her name. As Ron Sterling
stated so eloquently when asked why he has stayed in Saskatchewan,
where could he go? Everybody knows his face and the face of every
other accused who has been set up by police and falsely charged
(with the media on hand to record the arrests). People are not
always aware of the acquittals, or staying of charges.
Dufour is not doing his clients
any service by encouraging them to shut up. Playing on the fears
and embarrassment of people who have always been traumatized
is downright unethical. Dufour's client in this instance suffered
incredible losses. She was not even in the province when the
other people were charged. Even though she was acquitted (see Judge Lavoie's
verbal abuse of T.S.) eventually, she was subjected to unforgiveable
treatment. For Dufour to participate in making her feel frightened
about her identity is curious.
But we already know few if
any Saskatchewan lawyers have any ethics.
Mr. Dufour was hired by the CBC to make public hearings in whether
Hatchen and Munson
should continue to be on the public payroll after being charged
with dumping Darrell Night at the edge of town.
Ontario: | Law
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for the 1998-2002 period.
Inquiry into the malicious prosecution of David
Milgaard untanling 36 years of Saskatchewan police and Crown
misconduct: : Opening day 1 | 2
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| 7 |
- Stephen Williams:
Canadian writer subject to Stasi-like treatment by Canadian police
- Terry
Arnold: : Snitch a
suicide?
- RCMP
scenario stings: Brian
Hutchinson starts digging
- Gary
wells: Faulty eye-witness
testimony
- Tulia,
Texas
- Gilmer,
Texas
- Willie
Upshaw
- Wrongfully convicted in Canada
- Foster Parent false accusations
- Martensville
- Don
Smith obscenity trial: an obscene conviction
- James
Lockyer
- Hurricane
Carter
- Johnny Cochran speaks up for
Bill Sampson
- Vopnis
- Abdulai
Mohamed
- Nfld Defamation story:
- Wanda
Young
- Racism
in the Federal Civil Service
The Terrible Story behind the Atif Rafay and
Sebastian Burns convictions
Trial
set for June 15
We
know part of this disclosure is a forged statement and perjured
affidavit from a Winnipeg cop
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The
Crown is still fighting Fred Poirier -- and they are losing.
Secret Commissions Case from Northern B.C.
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- 2005: In
the United States the proven wrongful convictions just keep coming
at us!
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- Brandon Morin:
- Convicted in Oregon
- of rapes which did not happen
- This website has good information
about Measure 11 -- Oregon's Mandatory Sentencing requirements
which have been in place since 1994. In this case we see how
the combination of a flawed grand jury system and prosecutors
who seek not justice but convictions is a recipe for wrongful
convictions.
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Canadians who
have been wrongfully convicted because of improper investigations
combined with zealous Crown
A round-up of wrongful convictions in Canada
- Robert
Baltovich
- Michael Burns
- Sebastian Burns
- Rodney
Cain
- Wilbert
Coffin
(hanged, 1953)
- Jason
Dix
- Jim
Driskell
- Jody
Druken
- Randy
Druken
- Hugues
Duguay
- Michel Dumont
- Peter
Frumusa
- Walter
Gillespie and Robert Mailman
- Clayton Johnson
- Yvonne Johnson
- Herman
Kaglik
- Darren
Koehn
- Kulaveeringsam
"Kulam" Karthiresu
- Stephen Leadbeater
- Donald Marshall
- Chris McCullough
- Michael
McTaggart
- Felix
Michaud
- David Milgaard
- Guy
Paul Morin
- Shannon
Murrin
- Jamie
Nelson
- Greg
Parsons
- Benoit Proulx
- Atif Rafay
- Louise
Reynolds
- Thomas
Sophonow
- Gary
Staples
- Billy
Taillefer
- Steven
Truscott
- Joe
Warren
- Leon
Walchuk
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- AIDWYC
- Innocence Project (Canada)
- Innocence Project (U.S.)
- Northwest Law Center on Wrongful Convictions
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- Kirstin Lobato
- Jeffrey
Scott Hornoff
- Willie
Upshaw
- Hurricane
Carter
- Guildford
4
- Birmingham
6
- Amirault
- Houston
- U.S. wrongful convictions:
Exonerateed
- Kirk
Bloodsworth
- Laurence
Adams
- Ludrate
Burton
- Stephen
Cowans
- Wilton
Dedge
- Albert
Johnson
- Kenneth
Marsh
- Dwayne
McKinney
- James Bernard Parker
- Peter
Reilly
- Peter
Rose
- Sylvester
Smith
- Clifford
St. Joseph
- John
Stoll
- Marty
Tankleff
- Wilton
Dedge
- Ray
Krone
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- Still working on it:
- Dennis Deschaine
- Dennis
Perry
- Tim
Sandfort
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