Will The Senior and The Junior Both Get Grilled?

BCRailGate
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Yesterday we mentioned that Neal Hall had reported that the defence team in the BCRailGate Fiasco was demanding that one of the junior special prosecutors, Andrea MacKay be cross-examined over her role in the setting up of the Deal/NoDeal immunity thingy for Eric Bornmann.

You may remember the good Mr. Bormann. He is the very fine fellow and former Liberal insider who is also known, depending on who you are talking to at the time, as Spiderman, the Star Witness, the alleged self-professed bribe giver, the almost/kinda/sorta lawyer, and/or the most excellent self-exonerator.

But today, Bill Tieleman is reporting that the defence actually wants to cross-examine both the junior and the senior prosecutors in the case:

The defence wants to cross-examine the Special Prosecutor team in the B.C. Legislature raid case in order to get details on an immunity deal with key Crown witness Erik Bornmann, B.C. Supreme Court was told yesterday.

Michael Bolton, lawyer for former ministerial aide David Basi in the breach of trust and fraud case, told Justice Elizabeth Bennett that the defence needs to take the unusual step of cross-examining Special Prosecutor Bill Berardino and his associate Andrea MacKay on an unwritten agreement with Bornmann.

"I remain very, very troubled by the lack of candour and incomplete nature of the Bornmann transaction," Bolton said.

"That will require cross-examination of Mr. Berardino, unfortunately, and probably Ms. MacKay as well."


All of which sounds like a capital idea, indeed.

Except, of course, for it to happen it would mean that Mr. Berardino would actually have to show up in court once in awhile.

OK?

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Oh, and just in case you were wondering, based on your earlier reading of our synopsis of the trial so far, it was, indeed, Ms. MacKay who also acted as the junior to Mr. Berardino's senior when they worked the opposite side of the street....errrrrr.....'aisle' together representing Imperial Tobacco against the people of British Columbia not so very long ago.

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