{"id":91853,"date":"2017-03-01T01:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=91853"},"modified":"2017-03-01T01:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T06:48:23","slug":"shortage-of-prosecutors-in-edmonton-leads-to-charges-stayed-in-15-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/01\/shortage-of-prosecutors-in-edmonton-leads-to-charges-stayed-in-15-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortage of prosecutors in Edmonton leads to charges stayed in 15 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_91855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91855\" style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ph-mla0846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91855\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ph-mla0846.jpg\" alt=\"Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley says more prosecutors and court clerks are being sought. (Photo: Legislative Assembly of Alberta)\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley says more prosecutors and court clerks are being sought. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.assembly.ab.ca\/\"> Legislative Assembly of Alberta<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDMONTON \u2013A shortage of Crown prosecutors in Edmonton has led to charges being stayed in 15 cases that were to be heard in provincial court.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Crown prosecutor Shelley Bykewich says there is a 14 per cent vacancy rate in the prosecutors&#8217; office at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>She says the shortage is complicated by a Supreme Court of Canada ruling last year that set out new deadlines for completing trials: up to 30 months in superior courts and 18 months for cases at the provincial level.<\/p>\n<p>The stayed cases included charges of impaired driving, property offences, assault and breach of release conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Alberta Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley says more prosecutors and court clerks are being sought.<\/p>\n<p>She says they are actively being recruited both in Edmonton and in Wetaskiwin, about an hour south of the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCertainly we&#8217;re very concerned,\u201d says Ganley. \u201cWe never want a victim to see the person they have accused walk free.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2013A shortage of Crown prosecutors in Edmonton has led to charges being stayed in 15 cases that were to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":91855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[2499,15964],"class_list":["post-91853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-cases","tag-prosecutors-in-edmonton","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91853","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}