Mines Defends Mountie on Assault Charge

Lawyer for Coquitlam Mountie who's on trial says nobody was hurt in 2006 incident.

A Coquitlam Mountie on trial for assault and obstruction was justified when he interfered in an arrest last year, his defence lawyer said yesterday. In his closing arguments, Michael Mines told Judge Maria Giardini that the officer may have been angry when he called for back-up and arrived at an arrest while off duty but both the alleged assault and obstruction were "minor" and are not enough to warrant criminal convictions.




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Mines client acquitted in Marijuana Cafe Case

Former cafe owner faces 10 yrs

POT ADVOCATE CONVICTED ON TRAFFICKING CHARGES -
CO-ACCUSED FOUND NOT GUILTY

VANCOUVER - The former owner of a well-known east Vancouver cafe that openly sold marijuana until a police raid in September, 2004, was convicted of two marijuana-trafficking charges yesterday.

A British Columbia Supreme Court jury found Carol Gwilt guilty of possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking as well as possession of the proceeds of crime.



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Mines Client receives suspended sentence in Beating death

Players in fatal swarming sentenced

NORTHSHORE NEWS
By Jane Syed

One young man was placed under house arrest and a second man received a suspended sentence Thursday for their part in a violent swarming that ended in the death of 25-year-old Robbie Araji in Waterfront Park in the summer.



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Mines client successful in Skytrain Police assault case

Teacher taking SkyTrain cops to civil court

VANCOUVER COURIER
By Mike Howell-Staff writer

A 27-year-old teacher who claims two SkyTrain cops tackled her last fall and hit her in the eye with a flashlight is furious with the justice system after learning the Crown decided not to proceed with charges against the cops.

Christy Logeman, a special education teacher in Vancouver, required facial reconstructive surgery after last November's incident, near the Stadium SkyTrain station, said her lawyer Michael Mines.

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Mines client provides early information in Missing Women Case

A chilling 1998 audiotape reveals detailed information about a Port Coquitlam pig farmer charged with murdering six prostitutes who disappeared from the Downtown Eastside.

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Sobbing Killer jailed in B.C.

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By Rod Mickleburgh, Vancouver
For nearly five years, a code of silence blanketed the small logging community of Squamish,...