OTTAWA, Monday December 14, 2010:
Judge L. Girault acquitted scholarship mathematics-physics student Marc Kelly today after a long trespass trial.
The Youtube video of the arrest got national media attention in February.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiZ0VVKDGNE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbY1nBTtSUI
The student self-represented.
The University, the Ottawa Police, and the Crown gave it everything they had (witnesses, video surveillance, Legal Counsel opinion, etc.) and lost.
The case sets a precedent: The student union is the legal occupier of its offices on the U of O campus.
Mireille Gervais, Director, Student Appeal Centre, student union, said this was an important ruling to create safe space on campus in an aggressive university-management environment.
The political nature of the case and details of the trial were blogged today here:
http://uofowatch.blogspot.com/2010/12/breaking-news-student-marc-kelly-w...
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(les repondants sont francophone):
Mireille Gervais, Director, Student Appeal Centre, student union
Joseph Hickey, Youtube filmmaker (and member of University Senate)
Marc Kelly, acquitted
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