Justice committee  Yes, sure. We were in a brand new courthouse in a local municipality. They had lots of areas where they had segregated the jury from basically the rest of the public and the participants in the trial. The one area in which there was...I wouldn't say interaction, because everybody

Justice committee  My mom passed away in 1999. I was in a pretty dark place after that and sought grief counselling to deal with the death of a parent. Coming out of the trial, I could feel myself going back into kind of a dark place. I'm not trying to equate the two, but I could feel myself going

Justice committee  I'm not special. I don't claim to be. I'm from a small town in the middle of nowhere. I got the support because of where I worked. I just ask the question, why would Bobby in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, or Nova Scotia not get the same support that I was lucky enough to get and

Justice committee  For me, there was very little interaction with either the defence or the prosecutor when I was there. They asked several questions about whether I had been on social media, whether I had heard of the trial, and whether I was aware of what had happened. There were no questions as

Justice committee  Personally, I don't have the anger. I think I'm just more sensitive to things that are going on around me in certain areas. I'm a big, burly guy who's kind of a teddy bear inside, and that has gone even further down the road. I'm able to talk to people in regular life; they don

Justice committee  Personally, I believe it actually worked out very well that I was chosen, because I could relate to it very, very closely. For the education package, I was speaking more about maybe what it is to be a juror, what the expectations of the juror are, and what the expectations of the

Justice committee  I would like to echo the other witnesses as well, regarding the quality across all the provinces. I was lucky enough to be employed by an employer who had the benefits of the EAP program and it worked out tremendously for me. I would even say that coordinating those benefits that

Justice committee  I believe that something during a trial would be a great asset as well. Dealing with the prosecutors as they go through the process.... They want you to relate to the victim. They want to build that victim's personality. You see the videos. You see who they are in real life. And

Justice committee  No.

Justice committee  The only thing I would add is that there should be an education package to let people know what being a juror is. A lot of people don't even know what that process is, what that looks like. As Patrick said, when you go to the courthouse and go through the first step of the proces

Justice committee  Thank you. Honourable members of the committee, thank you for the invitation to speak today as a witness. I'm a 47-year-old male, who lives in the GTA. I served as a juror on a second-degree murder trial of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy. The trial was approximately six weeks lo

Justice committee  The case involved the death of a two-and-a-half-year-old boy who was under the care of his mother's boyfriend. According to the pathologist, the boy had sustained several serious injuries, including cracked vertebrae, broken bones, and blunt force trauma to the abdomen. These inj