(Source: CBC News, January 11, 2018)
MONTREAL — Justice Gaétan Dumas acknowledged the Crown had a flimsy case against former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic (MMA) railway traffic controller Richard Labrie, 59, and ex-MMA operations manager Jean Demaître, 53. Along with former locomotive engineer Tom Harding, 56, they are each charged with criminal negligence causing the deaths of 47 people. “I’m aware the evidence is weak,” Dumas told the court in the absence of the jury on Dec. 11. “However, it’s not up to me to evaluate it. That’s the jury’s job.”
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