“He was a great courtroom lawyer: abrasive, at times rude, aggressive,” said Oppal, who would go on to become B.C.’s attorney-general.
Selwyn Russell Chamberlain was born in Fort St. John on Dec. 29, 1942. His father was a steam engineer who moved the family around B.C. looking for work, from Cawston to Allenby before settling in Penticton when was Chamberlain was a teenager. The Penthouse case was in 1976-1977, when several members of the Filippone family were accused of conspiring to live off the avails of prostitution. The six-month trial was a media circus.
Obits are hard to write. But I wish Wally Oppal was less prominent in this one. The result I think is a misimpression.
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