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That information was made public earlier this week, when Justice Allan Betton released a 26-page written decision on the application to dismiss the first degree murder case against Jason McBride, Michael Jones and Jujhar Khun-Khun. He香蕉视频直播檇 reached the conclusion in June.

The basis for the application to stay the case was a breach of McBride, Jones and Khun-Khun香蕉视频直播檚 collective right to be tried within a reasonable time as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

香蕉视频直播淭he applicants submit that the primary cause of this lengthy delay was the Crown香蕉视频直播檚 failure to make timely disclosure, coupled with a significant shift in the evidentiary basis upon which it intends to rely in proving its case against them,香蕉视频直播� reads the decision from Justice Betton, who notes that approximately 58 months will have elapsed from the laying of charges to the anticipated conclusion of the accused香蕉视频直播檚 trial.

That application was, of course, opposed by Crown that argued the delay can be justified on the basis of unforeseen, overlapping events that have compounded the delay.

One of those factors is how the evidence came together.

Manjinder Hairan, a gangster that has been named repeatedly throughout the trial, gave three statements to police in 2011 and 2012 detailing his role in the shooting, as well as that of the three applicants and a number of Mr. Hairan香蕉视频直播檚 associates.

Hairan, however, was shot to death in January 2013, leaving the Crown to try to get his statements admitted as evidence at the trial.

That strategy changed when others close to Hairan and the accused men agreed to testify, Betton wrote in his decision.

Another stumbling block was accessing some of the evidence that was collected.

For example, a search warrant to examine a BlackBerry was executed in July 2012, but the RCMP unit involved in accessing the data on the device could not defeat the encryption technology until April 2014, until new tools became available.

In June 2014, 13,346 email messages were recovered spanning the period June 10 to August 21, 2011. The PDF version of the resulting report was 27,466 pages in length.

香蕉视频直播淚 have no difficulty concluding that this is a particularly complex case,香蕉视频直播� reads the decision from Betton.

香蕉视频直播淭he emergence of the witnesses and the challenges and issues related to disclosure of information connected to those witnesses were at least unavoidable if not also unforeseeable.

香蕉视频直播淭hese challenges and issues with disclosure were not a specific result of the Crown香蕉视频直播檚 transition from Plan A to Plan B. A meaningful portion, but by no means all, of those challenges was connected to reasonable requests and applications by the defence. Certainly, the scope of the disclosure issues, including the Crown香蕉视频直播檚 unchallenged justification for delaying or withholding disclosure, added substantially to the complexity of the case.香蕉视频直播�

The trial is on a break right now, to continue in Kelowna in the coming weeks.

To read the full decision,