MURDER CHARGE LAID!!!! ELLIE MAY MYER:::

[Chris]

Yeah I hear you Adrain. It is mind boggling. Why this issue of swarming is not taken seriously is beyond me. A judge said 'There was no way to determine who gave the victim the fatal blow' when handing out probation to swarming youths in Toronto 4 years ago.

I mean, it should be argued that murder can and is a collective effort in these cases. But judges don't have the courage.

[notmissing89]

Okay NO the Renee Gunning and Krystle Knott disappearances had nothing to do with bodycast joe.I know who he is and we did NOT see him that night.Neither Renee or Krystle said anything about Joe the last time we talked to them on the phone they just said they were coming back to Fort St John.

On a different note this is insane.I had no idea joe had been charged with another murder.Absolute craziness I still cant beleive the sweet guy I partied with at one point is a murderer!What is wrong with this world!

[Chris]

I still cant beleive the sweet guy I partied with at one point is a murderer!What is wrong with this world!

I think a lot of serial killers surprise people.

[Edsonmom]

Edmonton judge bans story after publication
 
 
By Karen Kleiss, edmontonjournal.comJune 10, 2009 5:59
EDMONTON - An Edmonton judge has ruled that court records made public Wednesday morning in the first-degree murder case against Joseph Laboucan are in fact protected by a publication ban.

The decision, issued shortly after 3 p.m., means a news story based on the records that was published five hours earlier on The Journal’s website, edmontonjournal.com, was effectively unpublished.

Provincial Court Judge James Wheatley said the Criminal Code bans publication of evidence that comes before the court during a preliminary hearing. That ban, he said, applies to the unsealed court records because another judge ordered the ban into effect at an earlier court appearance.

“Just because something is part of the public record does not prevent it from being subject to a publication ban,” Wheatley said. “For clarity, the publication ban imposed ... April 9, 2009 is in place.”

The documents -- hundreds of pages of court records -- contained extensive details about the steps police took in their investigation into the murder of Ellie May Meyer, a city sex trade worker found raped and bludgeoned to death on May 6, 2005.

Laboucan has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with her death. He was also convicted in 2008 of first-degree murder, kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault in the death of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte, but the conviction was quashed on appeal and a new trial was ordered.

kkleiss@thejournal.canwest.com

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