Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Lisa Johnson and Jack Farrell
Publication Date: September 9, 2025 - 20:00
Edmonton police publicly challenge Crown prosecutors, demand manslaughter plea deal is scrapped
September 9, 2025
Edmonton police are publicly calling out Alberta Crown prosecutors and demanding a possible plea deal be scrapped in a move criminal trial lawyers liken to extortion.
Police, in a letter provided to media Tuesday, express “shock and horror” in learning the Crown agreed to accept a guilty plea for manslaughter from a woman charged with first-degree murder in the blunt-trauma death of an eight-year-old girl.
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