22 June 2007

Subsidising the Driftwood Crips

It's not enough that the government pays their rent... now we get to pay their lawyers...
A Superior Court judge rebuked the Crown and ordered it to pay $27,000 in legal costs to alleged gang members for failing to have timely bail hearings after the massive Project Kryptic bust last week.

Nordheimer dismissed an application to release the nine suspects "because it's not responsible or reasonable" to do so. But he criticized the lack of financial and personnel resources for bail hearings after massive police operations such as Project Kryptic that targeted the Driftwood Crips in the Jane-Finch area.

The nine will receive $3,000 apiece from the order.

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