AlvinofDiaspar
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Quite a story today in The Star
Hundreds of driving conviction appeals tossed after Toronto-area paralegal files ‘sham’ challenges
A judge found Adelin Mocanu’s ploy to file a raft of meritless appeals in Highway Traffic Act charges put public safety at risk and forced the court to spend “countless hours” on frivolous cases.www.thestar.com
In a pair of rulings released April 9 and Aug. 14, Justice Louis P. Strezos found that GTA paralegal Adelin B. Mocanu lodged more than 220 “meritless” appeals over the past two years for charges related to speeding, disobeying traffic signs and other provincial offences under the Highway Traffic Act (HTA).
The judge found that Mocanu never had the intention of advancing the appeals, all of which were submitted after the paralegal or his Newmarket-based firm, Ticket Justice, entered guilty pleas on behalf of the defendants. Instead, Strezos determined, the goal of the ploy — flagged by city of Toronto prosecutors but which may have also been active in other jurisdictions — was to drag out proceedings until two years after the date the driver was charged. That’s the point after which provincial regulations dictate demerit points can no longer be applied to driving records.
If one can only assign damages for the amount of time (and therefore money) each case consumed the justice system to him.
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