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Title: Duckling-loving motorist faces life in jail over 2 road deaths
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URL Source: http://rt.com/news/167644-canada-duckling-motorist-sentence/
Published: Jun 22, 2014
Author: RT
Post Date: 2014-06-22 08:13:52 by Jethro Tull
Keywords: None
Views: 339
Comments: 11

Duckling-loving motorist faces life in jail over 2 road deaths

Published time: June 22, 2014 11:34

Emma Czornobaj (Screenshot from youtube.com/channel/UCqQD4OWUJXF1r1GffaGaxZA)

Emma Czornobaj (Screenshot from youtube.com/channel/UCqQD4OWUJXF1r1GffaGaxZA)

A Canadian woman was found guilty of criminal negligence over two road deaths caused by her stopping her car at a highway to help ducklings. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.

The jury on Friday delivered guilty verdicts on all four charges faced by Emma Czornobaj, 25. Sentencing is expected in early August.

Czornobaj was prosecuted over a June 2010 incident in which two people died. Stopping her car on a highway in Candiac, Quebec, Czornobaj, a professed animal lover, saw some ducklings on the roadside without their mother and thought she should pick them up and bring them home, she told the court.

Moments later André Roy, 50, riding a motorcycle, slammed into her car. Both he and his daughter Jessie, 16, who was riding pillion, died in the collision.

“I saw a body go over the car. It looked like a rag doll,” witness Martine Tessier testified, as cited by the National Post newspaper. “I shouted to my daughter to call 911.”

She said Czornobaj’s car was stopped at the leftmost lane of the highway and that its hazard lights were not on.

A provincial police officer told the court that Roy was driving at an estimated speed of 113 km/h to 129 km/h when he applied his brakes. The prescribed speed limit on the road is 90 km/h.

Emma Czornobaj's car (Image from suretequebec.gouv.qc.ca)

Roy’s widow, Pauline Volikakis, was at the trial to hear the verdict. On the night of the incident she was also riding her own motorbike on the road, behind her husband, but at a slower speed. She managed to avoid injury. During the trial, Volikakis stressed that she was not the one pressing charges against Czornobaj.

“It’s not me that’s bringing her to court,” she said. “I have no expectations concerning this trial.”

Czornobaj wiped away tears as the verdict was delivered to a packed courtroom in Montreal. Quebec Superior Court Justice Eliane Perreault said the 12-member jury voted unanimously.

She was willing in April to plead guilty in the trial, her lawyer Marc Labelle said, but the prosecution refused to offer her a plea bargain that would enable her to avoid jail time.

Labelle may file an appeal, considering that usually criminal negligence convictions involve elements of criminal intent on the part of the convict, he told reporters after the verdict was delivered.

“This was not a race. This was not a person who took a chance and drove drunk. This is not about someone who was speeding and took a risky maneuver,” Labelle told reporters.

He added that his client might only merit a sentence that can be served in the community and that he may request a pre-sentence investigation report when the case comes back to court on August 8 for sentencing. It would give the judge more information on Czornobaj, including her lack of criminal record and her attitude to the road deaths she was involved in.

Prosecutor Annie-Claude Chasse said the trial sent a clear message for motorists.

"What we hope is that a clear message is sent to society that we do not stop on the highway for animals. It's not worth it."(2 images)

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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)

"What we hope is that a clear message is sent to society that we do not stop on the highway for animals. It's not worth it."(2 images)

Reminds me of a question posed to new military people, to check their mental makeup.

""You are driving a truck with 10 soldiers in the back, a child steps in front of you on the left, there is a steep embankment on the right, what do you do.""

Cynicom  posted on  2014-06-22   8:33:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Cynicom (#1)

"You are driving a truck with 10 soldiers in the back, a child steps in front of you on the left, there is a steep embankment on the right, what do you do."

In the Army I was in, you'd have to clean the blood off of the front of the truck ON YOUR OWN TIME !

"If we don’t adhere to the Constitution on matters as significant as presidential eligibility, then the Constitution ceases to be a meaningful document for guiding our nation."

ndcorup  posted on  2014-06-22   8:55:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Cynicom (#1) (Edited)

Sojers are a dime a dozen.

"Have Brain, Will Travel

Turtle  posted on  2014-06-22   10:04:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Cynicom, Turtle, 4 (#1)

We were trained to run over unleashed animals when responding to serious radio runs.

The one exception was turtles.

We'd run over them whether the call was an emergency or not.

Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2014-06-22   10:07:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Jethro Tull (#4)

lol

To question is to value the ideal of truth more highly than the loyalties to nation, religion, race, or ideology.

christine  posted on  2014-06-22   10:35:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Cynicom (#1)

how were you supposed to answer that?

To question is to value the ideal of truth more highly than the loyalties to nation, religion, race, or ideology.

christine  posted on  2014-06-22   10:37:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Jethro Tull (#4)

"Have Brain, Will Travel

Turtle  posted on  2014-06-22   10:39:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Jethro Tull, Turtle, ndcorup, sojers (#4)

We'd run over them whether the call was an emergency or not.

Well, I can see we all have our "humor" hat on this morning.

Being so, I will humor you further by telling you how I answered that sick military shrink question.

I said, "if they they were dumb enough to let me drive the damned truck, and the sojers in the back were stupid enough to be in the military, they and I were going over the cliff".

I was awarded a top secret clearance, not because of my answer, rather they needed bodies.

Off the record, they said I was a "poor sojer".

Cynicom  posted on  2014-06-22   10:41:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: christine (#6)

Christine...

Good morning young lady, see number 8.

As with most shrink questions, there is no right or wrong answer.

It is a moral situation, with no answer.

Cynicom  posted on  2014-06-22   10:45:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Cynicom (#9)

I would jump out, send the sojers over the cliff, then dance in the street with the kid.

"Have Brain, Will Travel

Turtle  posted on  2014-06-22   10:51:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Turtle, Jethro Tull, ndcorup, Christine (#10)

I would jump out, send the sojers over the cliff, then dance in the street with the kid.

Damn, thats a good one. Had not thot of that scenario.

I bet that would have gotten you a clearance also, just for sheer inventiveness.

Cynicom  posted on  2014-06-22   10:55:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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