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B.C.'s Supreme Court has ruled that a person charged with contempt of court for breaking an injunction on the Coastal GasLink Pipeline was found not guilty.
B.C. Crown Prosecution Service confirmed with CBC that Justice Michael Tammen read the decision in Smithers, B.C., Wednesday for the trial of Sabina Dennis.
This is a big deal.
While trying to understand this news article I came across this article by the BC Civil Liberties Association.
Which says:
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The CBC News article says:
It seems like it might be a new defense for injunctions on unceded land.
Oh you’re right, it really is a big deal. The precedent is massive; I hope the cops get taken to the cleaners. The fact we can send ERT’s with C8’s and full combat gear to arrest a bunch of older ladies trying to defend their land, but somehow were completely incapable of stopping the Convoy terrorism in downtown Ottawa, is very, very disturbing.
I couldn’t find the actual judgement so it’s not clear to me how being a Wet’suwet’en witness defeated the prosecution’s argument that
Which is what’s suggested by the news.