Legal Research

Judicial Understatement

By David Cheifetz

R. v. Bomberry, 2010 ONCA 542

[9]  At approximately 3:45 a.m., [the deceased's] car stopped at an intersection about five blocks away from his apartment.  The vehicle was half on the road and half on the curb.  [The deceased] was in the driver?s seat and had suffered a single stab wound to the chest.  Expert evidence indicated he would have died rapidly from the injury.  Expert evidence also indicated that he was killed while sitting in the driver?s seat, likely by an assailant sitting in the front passenger seat.  There was some evidence to support the conclusion that [the deceased] had left his apartment in a hurry:  he was still wearing a condom on his penis, his shirt was only partially buttoned and his underpants were on backwards.

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