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The Supreme Court of Canada will be announcing the ruling of a crucial ruling today, on the verdict of a battered wife of a Nova Scotia, who attempted to hire an assassin for murdering her abusive husband. This sort of verdict has not reached Supreme Court is almost in 23 years, hence today’s widely anticipated ruling will restructure the critical case in defence of Manitoba’s Angelique Lavallee, who has previously been acquitted on the charges of hiring a fatal assassin for murdering her abusive boyfriend.
The high court previously heard the case of Nicole Ryan, married to an ex-soldier, Michael, who was portrayed as a “reign of terror” by a Nova Scotia trial judge, that initially acquitted her for attempted murder. The legal complexity of the case lies on the values of two different criminal law defences, namely allowing an accused person to be acquitted of a crime, while the other is acting in self-defence or acting under duress.
Today’s ruling will distinguish whether the defense of battered wife encompasses inclusion of duress, or better put, Ryan’s attempt of hiring an assassin to kill her abusive spouse. Documents presented in court show that Ryan called local police at least nine times requesting protection from her own husband, Michael, who constantly endangered her and her daughter. The murder plan was unveiled when the RCMP sent an undercover agent to act as an assassin interested to do Ryan’s job. She was later in March 2008.
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