Self-represented U of O student wins in court against cops, University and Crown

Marc Kelly wins his trespass case

by Denis Rancourt

Marc Kelly through window of SAC office minutes before cops barged in to arrest him

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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For more information, please contact:
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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