Watch Above: Erica Levin won’t be spending any time behind bars for trying to bribe a juror during her husband Aubrey Levin’s trial. Jill Croteau reports.
CALGARY – A Calgary woman found guilty of attempting to bribe a juror in her husband’s sexual assault trial was sentenced to an 18-month conditional sentence of 180 hours of community service on Friday.
Levin’s lawyer had asked for a three to six month conditional sentence; the Crown was seeking two years.
Erica Levin was found guilty on October 9, 2014, after being charged with obstruction of justice in the trial of her husband, forensic psychiatrist Aubrey Levin.
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At the trial, CCTC video was shown from January 2013 where Levin appears to approach a female juror at a CTrain platform near the Calgary Courts Centre.
The crown alleged that Levin attempted to bribe the juror by offering her money in a white envelope in exchange to find her husband not guilty of sexual assault.
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Levin told the court in October that the envelope contained a suicide note, rather than money. She denied any allegations of bribery and said she went to the CTrain station to end her life.
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With files from Jill Croteau, Jenna Freeman and Tony Tighe
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