Magliocca is charged with fraud and breach of belief in reference to expense claims whereas a member of metropolis council
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Former Calgary councillor Joe Magliocca gained’t be supplied extra particulars about paperwork the Crown claims are privileged communication between prosecutors and the RCMP.
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Provincial courtroom Decide Gord Wong dominated Tuesday the prosecution’s assertion that the exchanges quantity to solicitor/shopper privilege was adequate to forestall them from being disclosed.
“I see nothing at regulation that requires any additional description,” Wong stated, in agreeing with Crown prosecutor Aaron Rankin no additional data wanted to be supplied.
Defence counsel Greg Dunn had sought a “cataloguing” of the exchanges to find out whether or not they had been privileged or needs to be disclosed as a part of a possible abuse of course of software on behalf of his shopper.
Dunn says paperwork earlier disclosed implied the Mounties fast-tracked their investigation into Magliocca’s expense claims whereas he was on council with a purpose to have prices laid earlier than final October’s civic election, wherein the incumbent was soundly defeated.
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The lawyer had requested exchanges between the Crown and RCMP investigators on the timing of the fees being laid and pace wherein Magliocca’s first courtroom look was scheduled.
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Mounties issued a summons charging Magliocca on Oct. 8, simply 10 days earlier than the vote, and put out a information launch at the moment asserting the fees. The return date on his preliminary courtroom look was Oct. 15, simply seven days after the summons was issued.
However Wong declined to order the Crown to supply additional descriptions of every alternate between prosecutors and Mounties in reference to these two points.
“I make no additional order for disclosure and I make no order for additional description from what the Crown claims as privileged,” the choose stated.
Magliocca is charged with fraud and breach of belief in reference to expense claims whereas a member of metropolis council.
He’s set to face a 10-day trial starting Jan. 16.
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