Crime Sift

Entries from January 2007

Spectacular Crash, Dump Truck Chase

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments


Tags: Police Chase · Video

Officer Cleared in Shooting Caught by Dash Cam

January 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment

This video from the Minnesota state patrol shows trooper Bryan Carey talking with a driver in November. Carey wound up breaking the window and firing seven times. According to Carey the driver refused to get out, and then pulled a gun. The driver died. A report cleared the trooper of wrongdoing calling the shooting justified. […]

Tags: Police Shooting

Body in Boston Experiment

January 29th, 2007 · No Comments

A couple of guys play a prank and dump a fake body. Actually it is only a fake body because he is alive. What they consider to be a prank could also be thought of as an experiment. According to the police officer that arrives on scene five people called the police about the […]

Tags: Video

Text Of Letter of Apology To Canadian Tortured in Syria

January 27th, 2007 · No Comments

Maher Arar, a 36-year-old software engineer, who was arrested by U.S. agents in 2002 during a stopover in New York on his way home to Canada from a holiday was deported to Syria, where he says he was jailed and tortured before his release in 2003. Yesterday the following letter of apology was released by […]

Tags: Uncategorized

Are Judges Expected to Read Cases From the Supreme Court?

January 27th, 2007 · No Comments

There was an interesting case decided on January 20, 2007 that made headlines across Canada. The case was the trial of Kim Walker. Walker was convicted of second degree murder for the killing of a drug dealer. The verdict, if it stands, means a sentence of life imprisonment. There are always two […]

Tags: Criminal Justice