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Windsor jury finds accused not guilty of murder after deadly street fight · Kvetch & Release

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  Talk about a jury delivering a not guilty verdict in a second degree murder case
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  from a twenty twenty fight that did end up resulting in the death, but
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  the jury deliberated for a number of hours. As a result of what they
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  found or what they saw in the evidence, they decided not guilty. Again.
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  Joining me right now is the defense co council Bobby Russ And Bobby how
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  are you. I'm doing good, John, how are you doing very well?
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  Thank you? So, you know, pretty big day to have this
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  found out here. It must always be satisfying to receive you know, not
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  guilty for the work that you have done and for your client. Yeah,
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  satisfying and in this case, more than anything, a release. And in
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  this case, why don't you just break down what occurred and what was demonstrated
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  through the evidence. Yeah. So, I mean it's you know, it's
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  funny because if a judge decides, we can tell you exactly what occurred,
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  because what they say in the facts that becomes the facts. But jury just
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  decides not guilty. So I could tell you what I think the facts way
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  that they should have found. This was an encounter between two people who had
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  at least one prior physical altercation together that was in evidence. There was evidence
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  that they had made up on a prior altercation as well. Now, our
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  client, mister Taylor, shows up to this bar where the deceased is not
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  in attendance. He gets assaulted by a guy he doesn't know that gets spoken
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  up, and then about two minutes after that assault, the deceased walks in
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  and it becomes immediately clear that the deceased and the person who had just assaulted
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  mister Taylor are good friends. You know, they embrace, they by have
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  a dreat together, what have you. So our guy sort of makes a
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  plan to get out of there. He asked the bartender to call the police
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  and she says, you know, I'll just walk you out. He walks
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  out, the deceased follows him and chases him. There's an encounter. It's
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  caught on video. The video there is a little grainy, but it is
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  it was clear our our the deceased to the ground, and unfortunately, you
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  know, we had a pathologist and a neural pathologist who both determined that the
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  cause of death was a backwards fault. So it's certainly a matter of some
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  debate exactly what happened after the decease was taken to the ground. I know
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  what I think, I know what the Crown thinks, and I know what
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  others think. But the fact is he was you know, the injury that
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  killed him was when he was originally taken to the ground. So you know,
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  in our view, myself and mister Gordoner my co counsel, with an
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  extraordinarily strong self defense case from the get go, we felt that way as
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  soon as we saw the evidence, felt that way to hold through, and
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  you know, really felt formally in our minds that we were defending a one
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  hundred innocent person, you know, innocent legally, innocent factually, and innocent
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  morally. And you know that that adds pressure because you know, we always
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  have our beliefs in cases, but in this case, you know, we
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  really firmly did believe that she was convicted of anything that would have been a
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  wrong soul conviction. So you know, the pressure you feel in those situations
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  he is immense, and so you never had any doubt that he was acting
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  in self defense to preserve himself. No, in my view, if if
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  the onus, if the burden was reversed and we had to prove you on
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  a reasonable doubt that he was acting in self defense. Who would have done
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  so? Now, this was just hours of deliberation by the jury. Were
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  you surprised by the shortness of how long it took for them to reach this
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  decision or does it speak to the evidence that you were discussing and you know
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  what your thoughts are on this. No, I'm not surprised at all.
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  In my view, Like I said, this was a really obvious decision.
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  There would have been nowhere else to go on the evidence that I would have
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  been shocked and dismayed if they went any other way. You know, we
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  had there's always a time in between juries, hearing evidence and hearing submissions because
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  we've got to Sometimes there are applications with the judge. Sometimes there are you
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  know, discussions about what she'll say to the jury, about what we'll say
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  to the jury. So that took longer than usual here, So the jury
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  had a whole week to think about this. So I was not the least
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  bit surprised that they came back that evening, and in fact, I would
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  have been surprised if they hadn't. It was an obvious decision, and I
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  you know, I firmly believe that one hundred juries out of one hundred would
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  have done the same thing. So you know, I can't speak at all
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  as a reasoned legal mind, as you can just as the outside observer of
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  these things, but I have to imagine that it probably had an impact that
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  your client, you know, asked the bartender, Hey, could you please
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  call the police? I'm concerned. Yeah, I mean I would hope.
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  So we certainly submitted that it should. You know this, he acts passively
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  the entire night. He avoided confrontation the entire night. You know, there's
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  no question that whatever he did and whatever his intentions were on that night,
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  that it's a tragedy that mister McIntyre died. No one wants that, but
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  yeah, I mean the evidence was, in my view, overwhelmingly clear that
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  our guy avoided things the entire night. Well, I want to thank you
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  very much for joining us breaking it down from your point of view, Bobby,
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  It's always appreciated to have your time, mister Russon. Thanks John,
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  you have a great day to you as well. Not guilty. That is
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  the result there, Jerry found not guilty after that deadly street fight, and
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  glad to have Bobby Russen on Criminal Defense, who is also the defense co
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  Council in that case. There regarding Ryan Taylor