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.

  • m0darn
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    10 months ago

    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

    The accused’s intent, knowledge or recklessness that public disobedience tends to depreciate the respect for orders of the court

    Which is what’s suggested by the news.