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Mistrial Over Lawyer Leak | Edmonton News
Frank Stronach’s sexual assault trial just took a wild turn when a mistrial was declared after a bizarre lawyer-to-lawyer chat derailed the judge’s confidence in her original guilty verdict. The complainant’s lawyer, Shale Wagman, allegedly tried to negotiate civil damages with Stronach’s defense attorney, Leora Shemesh — which Shemesh called a “shakedown.” Judge Anne Molloy, already convinced of guilt on two charges, found the exchange so contradictory to the complainant’s testimony that she couldn’t trust her own credibility findings, calling it “bizarre” and ordering a mistrial. Both…
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