As the Jian Ghomeshi trial resumed Tuesday morning a divide among women writers began to appear about the validity of the process. Writers like Anne Kingston in MacLeans and Christie Blatchford seemed deeply cynical about the evidence. Margaret Shkimba in the Hamilton Spectator on the other hand, was worrying about the abuses that will be visited on women by men and go unpunished because women will fear being grilled in court. All leads
JUDGE ALLOWS STATEMENT
Judge William Horkins has allowed the Crown to submit a statement from the so-called fourth witness which it hopes will. corroborate the accusations of Lucy De Coutere against Jian Gomeshi. The judge is hearing the case alone and made the point that there is less jeopardy to the defense in such an arrangement. He said he would read the statement, consider it, and decide its “probative value.”
