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Canadian Doctor Escapes Conviction as Evidence is Destroyed Accidentally
February 18, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Medico Legal News
She had been also been charged with conspiracy to commit arson, threatening to commit bodily harm.
But Thursday Justice Peter Glennie of the Saint John Court of Queen's Bench found Dr. Corrina Golding, 42, not guilty on all three charges.
It had been revealed during the hearings that police documents vital to the case had been accidentally destroyed and interviews not properly recorded.
Golding was charged in July 2006. She was accused of hiring a patient to burn her leased Mazda MPV van and paying him with a prescription for the painkiller Percocet.
"We made the determination at this point it's in the best interest of justice to have this matter resolved in this fashion," Bill Wister, co-ordinator of specialized prosecution told CBC News outside the courthouse.
"I think it's a question of looking at documents that could've been preserved that perhaps weren't preserved. So there's issues of lost evidence; there's issues … with how evidence is preserved," Wister said.
The proper documentation not being available meant that Golding's defence couldn't get a fair chance to argue against that evidence, Wister said.
"I've never had a case where there's been problems with the investigation to the extent of the problems here," said Golding's lawyer, Brian Munro. "Certain pieces of evidence that should never have been overlooked or not secured … that's what we're dealing with here."
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