OTTAWA — An Ontario choose is slated to ship verdicts March 12 within the legal trial of ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich.
OTTAWA — An Ontario choose is slated to ship verdicts March 12 within the legal trial of ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich.
Barber and Lich are co-accused of mischief, intimidation and counselling individuals to interrupt the legislation for his or her roles in a 2022 demonstration that blocked Ottawa streets and infuriated residents.
The complicated trial featured an enormous physique of proof associated to the three-week protest.
The Crown aimed to show the 2 conspired to primarily maintain residents hostage to the noise and blockades to stress the federal government to alter its COVID-19 public well being insurance policies.
The defence argued the 2 accused merely exercised their basic rights to meeting and expression as a part of a authorized protest.
The trial, which stretched out over the course of a 12 months, wrapped up in September.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 6, 2025.
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