-- NAPANEE -- Brant’s mother Deanna, a retired teacher, took the stand at Brant’s bail hearing Thursday, offering a $50,000 surety that Brant would not plan, incite or participate in illegal protests between now and his court date.I guess Shawn forgot he was already in violation of his previous bail conditions... which, for most of us mere mortals, tends to mess up any pipedream of being released on bail on a new set of charges.
Still, a crack "social justice lawyer" can't let incontrovertible facts affect his strategy...
Peter Rosenthal, a Toronto-based social justice lawyer representing Brant, argued that conditions now are different from when Brant agreed on May 3 not to plan or participate in illegal protests.It didn't take long for the Crown to point out the holes in the defense case...
Crown attorney Bob Morrison also took Brant to task when he took the stand on his own behalf, bringing up how open Brant was about breaching his May 3 bail conditions.In the absence of any convincing evidence that Brant wasn't going to go out and blockade the courthouse parking lot that very afternoon... Judge D.K. Kirkland decided to lodge Mr. Brant at the local "Crowbar Motel" for the next 7 weeks.
“You had no intention of ever complying, did you?” Morrison asked.
“Well...” Brant said. “I actually...no.”
“It would be dangerous for him to be released at this time because he’s said ‘there’s more to come,’” Kirkland said after a nearly three-hour session.The preliminary hearing will be Aug. 27.
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