Try refreshing your browser, or Man accused in plot to smuggle cocaine using Vice Media contacts launches constitutional challenge Back to video Both men were charged in 2019 with conspiracy to import cocaine, when they no longer worked at Vice, after five people were caught at Sydney airport in 2015 with more than $20 million worth of cocaine in their Samsonite suitcases. All five of the drug mules eventually pleaded guilty in Australian court and were handed substantial prison terms. MLACMA allows evidence into court without any assessment of its reliability, Ravin Pillay, one of two lawyers representing Lalji, told court. The ability to test and challenge evidence introduced at a criminal trial against an accused is fundamental to due process,” he said. 36 of the MLACMA deprives Lalji “of the most basic feature of the trial process — the ability to challenge the evidence,” Pillay said.

Source: National Post February 18, 2021 00:11 UTC