An Ontario court has stayed the charges against a Mississauga man who was allegedly found with 8 kilograms of cocaine and 400 oxycodone pills, saying Crown delays have caused the case to take too long to get to trial.
The accused, Christopher Vaughan, applied for a stay of proceedings, after the case came close to the 30-month ceiling for trials. Vaughan said his rights to a trial without an unreasonable delay were being violated.
“This case is another example of how a major disclosure failure by the Crown, in a region beset with chronic institutional delay, must be immediately redressed or face the consequences,” Superior Court Justice Deena F. Baltman said in the March 26 decision….