Follow us on:
r Renew your ca CAA. B t a e c n a r u s in e
Bre a k i ng n e ws at n el s on st ar. c om
PM41537042
Friday, June 20, 2014
Vol. 6 • Issue 102
Inside the West Kootenay Advertiser
This week’s feature: ature:
Youth driving concerns
Hot laps with
Speed, distractions are main issues
Free
elcom n-Members w no d an s er b Mem eet, Nelson 596 Baker Str -1720 604-505
F1 Champ...
DrivewayCanada.ca Driveway
Long-running legal saga
280 Baker Street Nelson BC (250)
: POSTMEDIA NCE: AD REFERE SIZE: COLOUR: PROBLEMS?
354-4089
valhallapathrealty@telus.net www.valhallapathrealty.com
Buying or Selling a Home?
Singleton appeal dismissed
Nelson Star un5NS BCAApostitJ H) .5”W X 2.5” (2 al nt ) 268-5 Horizo Holmes (604 ntact Susan co s CMYK m le ob related pr Production-
GREG NESTEROFF Nelson Star
Laura Salmon Cell 250-551-8877
E-mail Laura@LauraSalmon.com Website www.LauraSalmon.com
RHC Realty
Each office independently owned & operated
Serving Our Community for
Over 35 Years
Quality, Individualized Rehabilitation in a Relaxed, Friendly Environment.
& SPORTS MEDICINE CLINIC 801 B Front St • 250-352-7030
Protesters come in all ages Maiara Gonzales, 6, Ambrosia Ries, 10, Maryjane Coffey, 8, and Rhiannon Ries, 8, took to the streets of Nelson to express their disapproval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. For more see page 5. Will Johnson photo
HIPPERSON HARDWARE 395 Baker Street 250.352.5517
Home Owners helping home owners
The BC Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge from a former Nelson lawyer and university professor who said his right to a speedy trial was violated. In one of the city’s longest-running legal sagas, Marvin Singleton, now 80, was convicted of stealing nearly half a million dollars from an estate of which he was executor during the 1980s and sentenced to three years in prison. He asked for a stay of proceedings based on the argument that he was denied a trial within a reasonable time because police stopped looking for him for four years. Singleton, who was eventually arrested in Kansas in 2004, where he taught part-time at a community college, claimed he was not trying to hide. However, the judge ruled any delays in the case were largely of his own making and the appeal court this week unanimously upheld that decision. “In effect, he says he was there to be found, and would have been found had the police tried harder,” Justice David Frankel wrote for the three-member panel. “It cannot be said that the police failed to act with reasonable diligence. Attempting to locate someone in a country as vast as the United States without any idea of where to look is akin to trying to find the proverbial needle in a haystack.” The appeal court said the trial judge erred in ruling that once Singleton became aware of the charges it was his responsibility to return to Canada, but still concluded she was correct in not attributing the fouryear delay to the Crown. Singleton, who taught at Notre Dame University in Nelson in the 1970s, and became a lawyer after the school closed, moved to Texas in 1993. Four years later, charges of fraud and theft were laid against him over the estate of John George Alexander, and a warrant issued for his arrest. Singleton was aware of the charges by mid-1998. However, when RCMP enquired with authorities in Texas, they learned he had left the area and his Continued on Page 4
NELSON HOME BUILDING CENTRE 101 McDonald Drive 250.352.1919
REGISTER AT WWW.HOMEHARDWARE.CA
WE’VE GOT YOUR LUMBER ®