CANADA
Hamilton Spectator
A Canadian legal expert says members of the public looking for answers from the Ministry of Attorney General on the Rev. Jose Silva case will have a wait on their hands.
“Out of sight, out of mind. They (the ministry) will not look at it. Especially if the accused is out of the country. They can’t win on this,” said Alan Young, an associate professor with Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
“It’s better to let it disappear than to try and justify it from a press statement,” Young added.
He was commenting on the attorney general’s admission last week that the Hamilton Crown’s Office made a deal with a defence lawyer to permit Silva to leave Canada for his native Brazil rather than face prosecution on a sexual assault case.
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