Former Prosecutor turned
Criminal Defense Lawyer
Jonathan J. Israels is a Vancouver
Criminal Defense Lawyer (and former Crown prosecutor at both Provincial and Supreme Court), who represents individuals being investigated and/or charged with all types of criminal offences.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
VANCOUVER - Former British Columbia polygamist leader Winston Blackmore is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on criminal charges and will have an ex Liberal MLA as part of his defence team.Nelson, B.C., lawyer Blair Suffredine, the MLA for Nelson-Creston until 2005, said he has taken on the case of the outspoken polygamist from Bountiful, B.C., who is alleged to be married to 17 wives.Suffredine noted the law now permits two people of the same sex to marry and attitudes have changed toward gay marriage in modern times.In light of that change, ``it seems a little difficult to imagine how...