Ottawa residents can testify in convoy protest organizers’ trial, judge rules

Eight Ottawa residents will be allowed to testify at the criminal trial of two convoy protest organizers, the presiding judge ruled Wednesday.

To bar the locals from taking the stand would “unfairly or irreparably cause damage” to the Crown’s discretion to call evidence as it saw fit, Perkins-McVey told the court in her decision Wednesday. Perkins-McVey said she would make sure the testimony heard by the court was relevant to the charges faced by Lich and Barber, rather than what amounted to victim-impact statements about how the protest affected witnesses personally.Prosecutors want local witnesses to tell the court how disruptions caused by the protest and intimidation by demonstrators manifested on the streets.

Lich and Barber are charged with mischief and counselling others to commit mischief and intimidation, among other charges.On Wednesday afternoon, the court returned to the testimony of the first witness in the trial: Const. Craig Barlow of the Ottawa Police Service cybercrimes unit.

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