🇨🇦 Court Kills a 9-Year-Old Girl's Chance at Justice by Upholding a Stay on Impaired Driving Charges

Baeleigh Maurice was nine years old when Taylor Kennedy hit her with a truck on September 9, 2021. Kennedy was charged with impaired driving causing death. The case dragged. The trial was delayed long enough that a judge stayed the charge. The Crown appealed. Saskatchewan's appeal court upheld that stay — meaning the charge remains dead, and a child's death goes without a criminal conviction.

This is the systemic rot that Canadians are not supposed to talk about too loudly. Jordan's Principle — the legal rule that forces stays when trials exceed time limits — was designed to protect the accused from indefinite legal limbo. A reasonable protection in theory. In practice it is now a get-out-of-accountability card in serious criminal cases, including the death of a child. The system took three years to not try someone for killing a nine-year-old girl. That is not a legal technicality — that is a civilizational failure wearing a procedural costume.

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