{"id":20929,"date":"2014-08-07T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20929"},"modified":"2014-08-07T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T06:04:34","slug":"saskatchewan-man-charged-with-murder-headed-back-to-court-over-mr-big-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/07\/saskatchewan-man-charged-with-murder-headed-back-to-court-over-mr-big-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatchewan man charged with murder headed back to court over Mr. Big ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_180734258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19266\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_180734258.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_180734258\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_180734258.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shutterstock_180734258-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a>mur<\/p>\n<p>SASKATOON\u2014A man accused of first-degree murder in the death of a Saskatoon woman will be returning to court where arguments will be heard on whether a recent Supreme Court ruling should affect the case.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas Hales is charged with strangling and beating Daleen Bosse, whom he had met at a bar where he worked as a bouncer.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested after a so-called Mr. Big Sting, in which undercover RCMP officers posed as members of a criminal organization trying to recruit Hales.<\/p>\n<p>Final arguments have been made and a verdict in the judge-alone case was expected Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p>But a new court appearance next Monday was ordered after the Supreme Court ruled last week that confessions extracted through the sting operations must be presumed inadmissible in court.<\/p>\n<p>In its judgment, the court said that prosecutors must prove a Mr. Big confession is admissible by showing it\u2019s reliable, and that it won\u2019t unfairly prejudice a crime suspect during court proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown must also prove the confession was not obtained via police coercion, or was facilitated due to a suspect\u2019s mental health or addiction issues.<\/p>\n<p>Bosse\u2019s burned remains were found four years after she vanished in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>During final arguments, the Crown contended Hales killed the university student out of rage when she mocked his sexual impotence.<\/p>\n<p>The defence contends Bosse died of alcohol poisoning and that Hales burned her body out of panic, believing he\u2019d be charged with murder since he provided the alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mur SASKATOON\u2014A man accused of first-degree murder in the death of a Saskatoon woman will be returning to court where &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}