Home | Community | Message Board


This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
InvisibleveggieM

Registered: 07/25/04
Posts: 17,501
[CAN] Cocaine-trafficking trial ends in hung jury -- again
    #13338534 - 10/15/10 01:22 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

Cocaine-trafficking trial ends in hung jury -- again
October 15, 2010 - theprovince.com

For the second time, a B.C. Supreme Court jury is hung in the case of two men charged in a massive, 15-year-old cocaine-trafficking case in Vancouver.

In May 2008, a jury could not reach a verdict in the trial of Roberto Salvatore Ciancio and Aviv Ciulla, charged after police seized 300 kilograms of cocaine valued at $10 million in 1995.

That decision came after a two-week trial and three days of jury deliberation.

Last Friday, after a one-week trial and 2½ days of deliberations, a second B.C. Supreme Court jury in Vancouver was hung.

Lawyers for the two men, along with the prosecution, appeared briefly Thursday before B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce and set a date for next Thursday, at which time it's expected federal prosecutors will have decided whether to proceed to a third trial.

Simon Buck, the lawyer for Ciancio at both trials, said it was "too hard to say" whether his client might be tried again.

"I would hope they wouldn't proceed because there's not a substantial likelihood of conviction now, because two juries have made it known that it's not going to end up in a conviction."

Ciancio and Ciulla were charged with unlawfully conspiring to traffic in cocaine and possession for the purpose of trafficking in September 1995 after 170 kg of the drug were seized from an east Vancouver home and another 129 kg from a van.

Hung juries are relatively rare, but they do happen in B.C.'s courts. For example, the second trial of Kelly Ellard in the beating death of Reena Virk ended in a hung jury in 2004. Ellard was convicted following a third trial in April 2005 and all of her appeals have been exhausted.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offline2859558484
Growery is Better
 User Gallery


Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 8,752
Last seen: 3 years, 4 months
Re: [CAN] Cocaine-trafficking trial ends in hung jury -- again [Re: veggie]
    #13338591 - 10/15/10 01:57 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

good


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlineauronlives69
psychedelic monk
Male User Gallery

Registered: 04/19/09
Posts: 655
Last seen: 4 years, 6 months
Re: [CAN] Cocaine-trafficking trial ends in hung jury -- again [Re: 2859558484]
    #13338757 - 10/15/10 03:54 AM (13 years, 3 months ago)

if someone believes a certain law is broken then by all means dont convict the victim, wish all drug trials would end in not guilty


Edited by auronlives69 (10/15/10 04:09 AM)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Can a genetic test predict your response to psychedelic drugs? veggieM 1,016 11 06/30/23 01:25 AM
by Zlati
* The never-ending trip: LSD flashbacks and a psychedelic disorder that can last forever veggieM 1,748 11 05/21/21 03:39 PM
by polaritymind
* I-40 traffic stop yields 95 pounds of cocaine motamanM 4,764 11 04/24/03 10:49 PM
by z@z.com
* Drug Trafficking and Terror MOTH 1,917 3 09/15/04 09:03 AM
by mitemouse
* Drug Trafficking: Nigerian Sentenced to Death in Pakistan motamanM 2,568 4 10/01/06 08:14 AM
by motaman
* Afghanistan's Other Battle: The Fight Against Opium Trafficking motamanM 795 0 12/22/04 02:27 PM
by motaman
* Ed Rosenthal (Marijuana Guru) Trial Update bowling-name 7,380 12 03/27/03 11:15 AM
by Middleman
* DNA DATABASE TRACKS POT TRAFFICKING motamanM 2,340 4 07/28/03 10:58 PM
by biglo

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: motaman, veggie, Alan Rockefeller, Mostly_Harmless
1,272 topic views. 0 members, 5 guests and 2 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.024 seconds spending 0.007 seconds on 14 queries.