Tue Sep 26, 2023 – 3:13 pm EDT
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) –– The trial for Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is now on a scheduled break and will resume on October 11.
Thus far, the trial has proceeded very slowly, with only four out of 22 Crown witnesses called much to the dismay of the defense who is demanding a sit down with the judge over the delays.
At this point, as per the original trial schedule which only allotted 16 hearing days, the trial should have been finishing. As it stands now, the court is looking at whether to extend the trial and if so, for how long.
Lich’s lawyer Lawrence Greenspon has requested from Justice Heather Perkins-McVey, who is overseeing the trial, that the Crown disclose what witnesses are being called forth each day, along with the evidence they are bringing, to speed things up.
“My request to her honour was to have a check-in date so that the kinds of things that have been happening don’t reoccur and in order to ensure that the trial does eventually get to an end,” Greenspon told reporters outside of the court last Friday.
Perkins-McVey has
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