In entering acquittals on the charges, Ontario’s Court of Appeal said the trial judge made mistakes in rejecting the boy’s self-defence argument. In looking at the case, the Appeal Court noted a person may legally use lethal force in self-defence, provided the action is reasonable in the circumstances. “In this case, her critical factual error makes the verdict an unreasonable one.”What appears to be undisputed, the Appeal Court said, was that R.S. There was no evidence, the court said, that he knew before firing that his attackers were running away. The Appeal Court also said it would not be in the interests of justice to prosecute R.S.

Source: National Post October 22, 2019 17:48 UTC