Shuswap Your Classified Connection / Vol. 26 No. 9 February 27, 2015
Market News
Inside Shuswap
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n Salmon Arm Silverbacks’ Bryden Marsh powers past #3 Ken Citron of the Vernon Vipers during the ’Backs 4-2 defeat of the Vipers last Saturday night at the Shaw Centre. The Silverbacks host the Merritt Centennials at 7 p.m. tonight, their second-to-last game of the regular season.
Doctor quest
Tough time for rural areas to attract MDs. Plus South Shuswap A8,9 Sports
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Chase
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Playoffs
Heat, Wranglers all tied up after four. Plus What’s On A18 Salmon support A19
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Man jailed for weapons set free By Kathy Michaels
appeal by no later than August. “Although I am less sanguine than Mr. Montemurro about the strength A Kelowna man who recently of some of his grounds of appeal, went to prison for charges relating I am also less pessimistic than the to a heavily armed drive through the Crown about the possibility of the Shuswap has been set free, for the appeal succeeding. Admittedly, the time being. prospects of success with respect to In a decision released this week, some of the grounds are greater than Cory Joseph Montemurro, 45, was with others….,” reads the decision granted judicial interim release by Supreme Court Justice David pending the hearing of his ap- Frankel “While this case is close to peal from conviction. Release was the line, on balance, I am of the view granted with a list of 22 conditions, the merits of the appeal are such that $500,000 in sureties and a promise public confidence in the administrato enter the written component of his tion of justice would not be adverse-
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ly affected by granting Mr. Montemurro bail provided he diligently prosecutes the appeal.” Montemurro had been sentenced to five years in prison alongside Kelowna Hells Angel Joseph Skreptak a month earlier, but was given an all-but-instant reprieve due to the intent to appeal submitted Jan. 20. His appeal can be distilled to six points: •The trial judge erred in finding reasonable grounds to arrest the occupants of the Jeep and that the search of the Jeep was lawfully conducted incidental to those arrests.
•The trial judge suffered from an undisclosed illness during the proceedings which resulted in him making factual errors in his voir dire ruling and reasons for judgment; •The trial judge erred in finding Mr. Montemurro in possession of all the weapons on the basis of a joint enterprise; •The trial judge erred in finding a knife on Mr. Montemurro’s person to be a weapon; •Mr. Montemurro was entitled to know why the trial judge was reSee Appeal on page 4
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