The Crown has filed an appeal in a case that saw an RCMP officer acquitted of perjury charges for his testimony at the Robert Dziekanski inquiry.
Constable Bill Bentley was among four officers who confronted Dziekanski at Vancouver’s airport in October 2007, when the Polish immigrant was repeatedly stunned with a Taser and died.
All four officers were charged with perjury for what the Crown alleged was altered testimony at a subsequent public inquiry but Bentley — was tried first — was found not guilty after the judge concluded there were other, innocent explanations for the discrepancies.
The special prosecutor in the case has filed a notice of appeal, arguing the trial judge failed to consider all of the evidence and failed to apply the correct legal test when determining whether the Crown proved its case.
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