B.C.’s top court has rejected the appeal of a former Richmond RCMP officer convicted of exposing himself to Vancouver private schoolgirls.
• instructing the jury that a factor to consider in assessing the credibility of a witness’s evidence is whether the witness has an interest in the outcome of the case; and, by not giving a warning on assessing guilt on credibility of witnesses. As for witnesses having an interest in the case outcome, Seangio, the only defence witness, argued the judge’s jury charge “invited the jury to reject his evidence because he was the only witness with an interest in the outcome.”“The charge repeatedly stressed the presumption of innocence and the Crown’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt,” she said.
In the case of the schoolgirls, Baragar said, Seangio offered no explanation. In the case of the female officers, “he simply denied he was masturbating.” He said victims got partial or full licence plate numbers, that video cameras caught images of his car, that the sexual behaviour of the driver was the same in each instance and that the vehicle sped away when some victims or police officers attempted to see the driver.
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