The defense responds
On May 18, Jacques Delisle’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the Crown’s appeal, deemed “vexatious, totally unfair […] lodged in bad faith, contrary to the rules of decency and fair play” and “abusive”.
In a ten-page document, lawyers Jacques Larochelle and Maxime Roy recall that seven pathologists concluded that the Crown expert should have kept the evidence resulting from the cutting of the brain at the time of the autopsy.
What is more, a recent report by European experts, mobilized by the public prosecutor, concludes that “the absence of photographs of the brain as well as the absence of a detailed description of the lesions suffered by the latter and their location severely limit our ability to determine a trajectory,” the lawyers write.
This demonstrates the “bad faith” of the Crown, according to the respondent, who also points out that this opinion, produced in December 2021, was not filed in evidence by the public prosecutor before the Superior Court.
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