Ocean Sentry
(From canada.com) – A case that is setting Canadian legal history is slated to be called in provincial court in Corner Brook today. Judge Wayne Gorman”s courtroom will be the site for the trial of 15 sealers who were charged 12 years ago with selling blueback seal pelts.
Charges were laid against hundreds of Newfoundland sealers in the fall of 1996 and since that time most have been convicted or pleaded guilty.
The 12-year wait for these charges to go to trial sets a record in Canada as the longest wait from the time of the laying of the charge for a summary conviction regulatory offence to the presentation of evidence at trial.
