Jurors in Coutts blockade public mischief trial will hear final arguments next week

Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Cross examination continued today in a Lethbridge courtroom of an RCMP officer who was on the scene of the 2022 Coutts border blockade that shut down traffic between Alberta and Montana. Three people are accused of organizing the blockade to protest Covid-19 restrictions. Sarah Jones has more on what the jury heard on day four of trial.

The prosecution called just a handful of witnesses during the trial, including former Coutts mayor Jim Willett and RCMP officers, and told the jury Friday it had decided against calling one additional witness. “I can also advise you sir that with that decision having been made, that the Crown will be closing its case,” said Crown prosecutor Steven Johnston.Alex Van Herk, Marco Van Huigenbos, and Gerhard Janzen have pleaded not guilty to a charge of mischief over $5,000.The Crown has presented evidence it says proves the trio spearheaded the protest that tied up cross-border traffic between Alberta and Montana for two weeks in early 2022 in a protest of COVID-era rules and restrictions.

The defence has argued that the protest group was a mishmash of competing interests to the point it wasn’t clear who was calling the shots.“We have some administrative matters with which we must deal before we provide you with statements from the Crown, statements from the defence, and so what I’m doing is I’m going to allow you to leave now and require you to be back here Tuesday morning,” Yamauchi said.

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