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Ontario Court of Appeal rejects application for COVID-19 bail from inmate with diabetes

from The Lawyer's Daily

Ontario Court of Appeal rejects application for COVID-19 bail from inmate with diabetes The Lawyer's Daily The Ontario Court of Appeal has demonstrated how far it is willing to go to relax bail rules to reduce prison populations during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a unanimous July 6 decision in R. v. Stone 2020 ONCA 448, the Court of Appeal rejected an application by convicted drug trafficker and sexual offender John Paul Stone for release from the federal medium security Bath Institution, just west of Kingston, ON, pending an appeal of his six-year sentence. READ MORE

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