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Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop
#8523468 - 06/14/08 01:02 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop
LONGUEUIL, Que. -- A jury has found Basil Parasiris not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Laval police Const. Daniel Tessier.
Parasiris appeared relieved after the verdict was read out. His wife, Penny Gounis, gasped, "Oh my God!" and his sister began to weep.
The jury made the decision in its fourth day of deliberation.
Shortly after 5 a.m. on March 2, 2007, Tessier was the second of nine Laval police officers who stormed into Parasiris's home after they smashed in the front door with a small battering ram.
The raid was part of an investigation of five drug traffickers who were selling cocaine in Laval.
The Laval police morality-drug squad suspected Parasiris was supplying the drug dealers with cocaine and were hoping to find a large quantity of the drug inside. Because of their suspicions they obtained a search warrant allowing them to make a so-called "dynamic entry," designed to catch people off-guard before they can destroy evidence.
But before the jury began hearing evidence, the trial judge, Justice Guy Cournoyer, ruled the warrant used for the raid was a violation of Parasiris's charter right that protects Canadians against abusive search and seizure. Cournoyer criticized the Laval police because they had no evidence they would find a large quantity of drugs in Parasiris's home. Also, Parasiris was never charged with drug trafficking after the raid.
At times when the jury wasn't sitting, Cournoyer insisted he wanted the trial to be about what happened inside Parasiris's home when Tessier was killed and not what he referred to as "fireworks." Because of this, the jury was never told about the warrant or why the Laval police were there in the first place. The six men and six women also never heard that the police found less than a gram of cocaine, nearly two grams of marijuana, 13 cellular phones and four pagers inside the home.
Police also found eight pages of what one investigator described as possibly being the accounts of drug trafficking and Parasiris admitted during an interrogation that he was involved in drug trafficking for three years to get out of financial trouble. The jury also never heard this evidence.
During the raid, five of the officers headed up a stairway to the second floor of the home where the bedrooms were. Tessier headed for the master bedroom and was shot by Parasiris as he neared the door.
Parasiris and his wife both testified they had no idea it was the police who had broken into their home. Both also said they never heard the officers shout "Police!" during the raid until after Tessier was shot.
Perhaps the best evidence to support Parasiris's claim that he feared he and his family were under attack was that he admitted he soiled his underwear during the raid.
Parasiris testified he opened his bedroom door, came face to face with Tessier and fired his revolver when he saw Tessier's hand was pointing towards him.
Parasiris fired four shots, striking Tessier three times. The fourth shot struck Const. Stephane Forbes, who was about to open the door to the bedroom of Parasiris's seven-year-old daughter, Stephanie.
When they heard the shots, three officers returned gunfire. Det.-Sgt. Nathalie Allard fired four shots towards Parasiris but struck his wife in the right arm and Tessier in the foot.
Constables Serge Lauzon and Francois Leblanc, the man in charge of the investigation, mistook where the shots were coming from and fired five rounds each towards the bedroom of Parasiris's 15-year-old son, George.
During the trial, Parasiris was acquitted by Cournoyer on three charges related to Forbes, who was struck in the left arm by the stray bullet. While Cournoyer was in the middle of instructing the jury on those three charges, including attempted murder, defence lawyer Jacques Larochelle pointed out the Crown never presented evidence Parasiris meant to shoot Forbes.
Parasiris still faces eight charges related to four loaded firearms he kept in his house, including the Ruger .357 magnum revolver he used to shoot Tessier. Parasiris had a license for the revolver, but not for the address he kept it at.
He did not have licences for the other firearms and is charged with improperly storing all three.
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Re: Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop [Re: myshoesarered]
#8523822 - 06/14/08 02:52 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop [Re: myshoesarered]
#8524045 - 06/14/08 03:45 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop [Re: Chemy]
#8524321 - 06/14/08 05:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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If you choose a to do a job that involves kicking down the door of some family home and charging in uninvited, armed, watch out dickweed.
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Re: Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop [Re: Chemy]
#8524325 - 06/14/08 05:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I like how the cops just start shooting everything that moves, and stuff that doesn't, when a shot rings out. They shot the bedroom wall of the guy's child? WTF? The article alluded that that was not the direction of anyone in the room, so why'd they shoot there?
Sounds like bullshit. More drug war death.
Hopefully once the pigs start dieing they'll stop these no knock warrants.
Dynamic entry? Bullshit. Knock on the fucking door and say "police".
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Re: Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop [Re: johnm214]
#8524479 - 06/14/08 06:26 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Thank god somewhere in North America the cops can't get away with shit like that. In the U.S. the guy would NEVER, absolutely NEVER,walk,especially if he was suspected of dealing.
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Re: Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop [Re: Irieforester]
#8525980 - 06/15/08 04:20 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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> not guilty of first-degree murder in the death of Laval police Const. Daniel Tessier ..... Tessier was the second of nine Laval police officers who stormed into Parasiris's home after they smashed in the front door with a small battering ram.
In the US, 1st degree murder means premeditated, as in you thought about how to do it, planned it out, and then followed through with it. Either definitions are different in Canada, or Canadian prosecutors are just as unscrupulous as US prosecutors when it comes to stretching the meaning of the law.
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Re: Que. man found not guilty in death of Laval cop [Re: myshoesarered]
#8526107 - 06/15/08 07:34 AM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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if drugs was legal none of this would have happen. good to hear that Basil Parasiris and his family are ok. i want to shake his hand and tell him good job.
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