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Two Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officials who attended the Const’s sexual assault trial jury variety procedure. From RNC, Doug Snelgrove, as observers, asked to leave construction on Tuesday and not return.
The two officers, who were allegedly involved in the investigation but were not expected to testify, had come from Ontario to participate in the process, which takes place at the former St. John’s School of the Deaf. The provincial government had granted them exemptions from the mandatory 14-day self-cleaning period, which allowed them to move on only to paintings.
While officials submitted their waiver documents to the court guilty of administering the court’s detection protocol for COVID-19, the other court participants in the construction were unaware of the scenario, adding the 151 people who had been summoned to serve as a jury.
The defense suggests that Randy Piercey noted his fear of the attention of the presiding judge, Judge Garrett Handrigan, who asked OPP officials to leave construction and indicated that prospective jurors can simply request dismissal if they feared exposure to COVID-19 as a result. of the presence of officials. Two more people did and Garrett granted them exemptions from their jury duty.
When the court resumed after the lunch break, Handrigan issued an order, despite the province’s exemption rules, prohibiting the two officials from returning to the building and raising precautions for exposure to coronavirus.
Some courts were also concerned.
“At a time when the leading medical officer has asked us all to exercise greater non-public surveillance, it is disappointing that our employer is knowingly putting so many others at risk,” one user told Telegram.
There is no indication that any of the PPPs have coronaviruses.
The ban on COVID-19 in the province, issued as an order for special measures under the Law on the Promotion and Protection of Public Health, has recently limited access to Newfoundland and Labrador to citizens of the Atlantic provinces, with some asymptomatic personnel on the list of the waiver order and those who have prior authorization from the Medical Director.
When asked about the scenario of a tumult in the Confederacy Building on Tuesday afternoon, The Minister of Health and Community Services, Dr. John Haggie, said that PPO officials received exemptions because they were considered essential workers.
“We don’t make that determination in the field of public health,” Haggie said. “What is happening is that if it is considered essential, then the criteria for the exemption are very clear. They are expected to be ingsed when they are not. “on their way to frames or paintings, and when in pictures, they are expected to attach themselves to the precautions of COVID-19, so it is about physically distanced, disguised as mask and necessarily being alone.
People with exemptions are not required to promote it, Haggie said.
“I think the environments of the maximum paints would be aware of this, only because of the nature of the other people they provide and the fact that they are required to wear masks. “
When asked to respond to reports that Ontario Provincial Police officers had not worn a mask during their stay at off-site court facilities, Haggie noted the province’s breach reporting procedure, stating that with data about a user violating the special law, fitness measures may record a report for investigation.
Haggie said staff have been traveling the province for six months.
“We know that in general, if we have instances of COVID, it’s because it’s imported from outside, so unless you back off, given our epidemiology, we did something right,” he said, when asked if he was involved in court. Employees.
“It’s a threat, but you can’t live with COVID without a threat. What you are doing is managing the threat at an appropriate level”
At four o’clock in the afternoon On Tuesday, 12 juries had been decided for the trial of Snelgrove, which is scheduled to begin on Wednesday morning, the first in this province – and the time in the country – to take a position amid the COVID-19 pandemic and it is expected to last 10 days.
This is the time when Snelgrove has gone to trial on the charge of sexually assaulting a woman while on duty as a police officer in San Juan in 2014. I acquitted in 2017 before the Crown appealed and ordered a retrial, first through Newfoundland. and Labrador Court of Appeal and later the Supreme Court of Canada.