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One of the 13 fourth-year dentistry students involved in Dalhousie Facebook scandal, Ryan Millet, was present with his lawyer, Bruce MacIntosh, before his hearing at 5 p.m. on Tuesday when the pair addressed the media. In his remarks, Millet’s lawyer alleged that he will argue to for the return of his clients’ clinical privileges that he lost along with the rest of the group this semester.
According to MacIntosh, his client deserves leniency and sympathy since he encouraged other members of the Facebook group to remove the comments and showed the posts to a female classmate before faculty was notified. MacIntosh added that recent closed-door Dalhousie senate meetings have endorsed an independent task force to look into the Facebook group members but they do not show procedural fairness. Referring to a recent statement by Dalhousie University Richard Florizone, MacIntosh questioned that “have you ever heard a judge who hasn’t tried or convicted a person yet, say ‘We are all committed to significant consequences’?”
In his remarks, MacIntosh stated that “what we learned in that law school up the road is called due process, it’s innocence until you’re proven guilty.” He alleged that “this will go as far as it has to go” until Millet’s suspension is lifted and his reputation cleared, adding that “if he’s cleared … then we’ll look for the next step to make sure that he can go on and be the good dentist that I know he wants to be.”
We shouldn’t expect University hearings to have an overload of seasoned jurists who can tell right from wrong.
This guy was lucky enough to get a ‘hearing’, let alone have his arguments rationally or morally parsed.