Bruce Montague goes to court....

March 12-16 Court Hearings

The hearings this week begin at 10:00 AM daily at the Superior Court of Ontario, 216 Water Street, Kenora Ontario.

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Daily Updates

March 12 - Today's hearing was delayed due to an extended sentencing hearing. By the time everyone was searched and entered the court, it was well after 3:30 PM. The Crown, Mr. Peter Keen challenged our two main expert witnesses on the grounds that their testimony is opinion which is based on unqualified facts. We'll proceed tomorrow at 10:00 AM with evidence to the contrary.

March 13 - Today court started on time at 10:00 AM. As anticipated we spent the whole day dealing with submissions from Mr. Martin and Mr. Keen regarding the admissibility of evidence from Dr. Gary Mauser. Mr. Keen had lots of arguments to show that the judge should not accept Dr. Mauser's evidence, including consideration of the reliability, relevance and expert status of the evidence. Court resumes at 10:00 AM tomorrow.

March 14 - Court resumed at 10:00 AM. First off judge Wright agreed to extend the hearings into next week in order to provide sufficient time to deal with the constitutional issues. We spent the whole morning working through Mr. Keen's further arguments to dismiss the expert evidence of Professor Mauser. This afternoon Calvin Martin made a final submission susbstantiating Professor Mauser's expert status, and we began working through issues of David Tomlinson's admissibility as an expert witness.

Dear Supporters:

As I write this we are sitting in court during a recess. It's been a busy week so far dealing with the crown's objections in accepting our expert witnesses Prof. Mauser and Dave Tomlinson. We expect today that this issue will be finalized. That means that tomorrow we should be able to finally start into our actual arguments.

It looks like this hearing will be extended into next week due to the delays in getting our witnesses accepted as "expert".

Sorry I don't have a lot to report as yet.but rest assured I will report to you as much as I can as we continue thru these hearings.

. . . We're now at the end of the day and the crown has just now started into the attack against our witness Dave Tomlinson. Judging from what I've seen so far I would expect the crown to spend the whole day tomorrow arguing about the admissibility of Dave Tomlinson's testimony.

This is a torturously slow process so far, but at least we are moving forward. Hopefully our expert witnesses will both be accepted by the judge and we can begin the actual arguments in our constitutional challenge. Even if the witnesses are not accepted as "expert" we will still be able to enter our arguments and proceed ahead.

I apologize for the "spotty" style of writing above, but time is at a premium and the priority is to spend it on court work. I hope to have something more substantial to report on tomorrow. Ryan (our webmaster) is also with us and putting in a tremendous amount of work into this hearing. Ryan is also putting updates into our website from his perspective, so you may also want to visit www.BruceMontague.ca for his updates as well (they're probably better than mine anyway).

Our judge appears to be very fair and attentive to the issues, and I'm optimistic that he will be fair. Overall I would have to say that I am pleased with our hearing so far even though it is so slow.



Yours in Liberty, Bruce.