Appeal documents
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44 books, a couple disks and two factums blaming it all on a bad cop and a good judge.
This is the government defendants’ appeal of the findings of malicious prosecution against them. The story began in 1991 with the arrests of 19 people who were charged with hundreds of occurances of sexually abusing three foster children.
The charges were stayed against 16 one year after they had been ordered to stand trial and three people (the birth parents and the birth mother’s partner) had been tried and convicted. Those convictions were later overturned.
All the material in these documents was under seal and a sweeping publication ban. The court proceedings against Ross, Ross and White were also closed to the public.
Richard Klassen and I started the website injusticebusters in 1998 to crack this story. It took two years to get the attention of CBC’s newsmagazine The Fifth Estate" to take an interest and they produced a one hour show, "Scandal of the Century" which cleaned up at the media awards in 2001.
The civil claim for malicious prosecution which Richard Klassen had filed in 1993 went to trial in September, 2003 after the government defendents had spent perhaps millions to shut us down, shut us up and starve the Klassen family into submission. Richard Klassen ran the plaintiff’s side of the trial with the assistance of Angela Geworsky.
It was a seven week trial and Klassen was able to get before the court hundreds of pieces of evidence and hours of testimony. On Dec. 30, 2003, Judge George Baynton found Superintendant Brian Dueck, Prosecutor Matthew Miazga and contract therapist Carol Bunko-Ruys had conspired to maliciously prosecute the Klassen/Kvello families.
The damages trial was postponed to allow the defendants to appeal. The appeal was supposed to be expedited but Richard Klassen had to apply to the Appeal Court to order them to produce their factums. The order was made in June and they were ordered to produce by Aug. 31. The above stacks represent what they came up with.
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Appeal to the Great Spirit
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Appeal to the Great Spirit, about 1954, bronze on marble base by Paul Manship
Appeal to the Great Spirit may have been inspired by a sculpture of the same name by Cyrus Dallin, which shows a Native American man on a horse, appealing to the sky. Paul Manship used the same gesture in this sculpture, which evokes a sense of desperation and futility, as if the man and boy have nowhere left to turn.
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Court of Appeal orders arrest of asbestos contractor
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