Though it’s not disputed that this twerp had indeed kiddie porn on his PC, this guy is actually dares to smile, along with his weasel lawyer. Please, let there be some kind of justice, and we hear later on that this guy gets struck by lightening or slips on his prayer rug. KGS
H/T Blazing Cat Fur
Child porn charges tossed
Charges withdrawn. Defence lawyer David Kolinsky (left) and Ayad Mejid stand outside the courthouse after a judge acquitted the Brampton man of possessing child pornography. She found CSIS violated Mejid’s charter rights by seizing his laptop without his permission. Torstar News Service
A Brampton Muslim leader has been acquitted of child porn possession after a Superior Court judge found agents working for Canada’s spy agency acted in a “reprehensible” manner by illegally seizing and searching his computer.
In a sternly worded decision, Justice Jane Kelly concluded Ayad Mejid provided his laptop computer to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service after he was threatened by agents investigating him as a suspected terrorist.
She was particularly critical of an agent known as Witness “A,” whose conduct she described as “flagrant and deliberate.”
Mejid felt he had “no choice” but to turn over his computer in October 2007 after being told it was his “last chance” to prove he was not a terrorist, the judge wrote.
Witness A, whose identity was protected in court, told Mejid an extramarital affair would be disclosed if he didn’t cooperate.
Kelly, who summarized her 21-page decision in court Wednesday, said the admission of evidence would bring the administration of justice into disrepute, prompting the prosecution to withdraw the charges of possessing child pornography.
Outside court, Mejid, 47, said his elation over the acquittal is tempered by the suffering his family has endured since he was charged in 2007.
“We’re happy for this end, but we’ve already (been) punished for three years. I spent almost 50 days in jail for no reason. Our lives are ruined.”
His lawyer, David Kolinsky, said it’s “gratifying to have a court recognize the degree to which his rights were violated.”
Kolinsky noted the Supreme Court of Canada has said if breaches of Charter rights are “technical or small or made in good faith” then the evidence tends to be included. Only when violations reach the more serious end of the scale is evidence excluded, he said.
Kelly concluded the Charter breach was “serious” and wrote she is troubled by “the atmosphere of coercion and intimidation that the CSIS agents . . . seem to have created and been eager to embrace.
“The very people that are tasked by the federal government to oversee and safeguard Canada’s national security are themselves acting in a manner that suggests either a complete lack of comprehension of our Charter rights or else, they demonstrate a total willingness to abrogate and violate these same principles.”
Canada, you are fucked.
If the perp had nothing to hide why would he be concerned about his computer being examined?.
Nothing more vile than this kind of scumbag.
That's great. The court recognizes HIS rights were violated… so the 'justice system' makes things better by throwing the rights of his victims into the meat grinder.