Ghomeshi cleared all charges

[Tugela]

There wont be any perjury charges.

A finding that your evidence is not credible is not a finding that you were lying. Proving perjury beyond a reasonable doubt is virtually impossible without objective evidence of the truth. That's clearly not the case here.

As for civil suits I'd be pretty amazed if anyone has the appetite or resources for those. It's easy to yell out "sue them" when you don't have to write the retainer cheque.

Except that it was pretty clear that the complainants made false statements. That was established in the trial, so there is no question about that. Perjury would not involve their general allegations, but the specific things that they claimed that were not true.

I think that there is a public interest in persueing perjury charges, since a whole lot of public money was wasted as a result of their actions. That would send a message to the general public to tell the truth when they are involved in a criminal complaint. It probably won't happen though, since usually "victims" are given a free pass in things like this. If Ghomeshi had committed perjury however, they would have no hesitation in nailing his ass to the wall. There is a double standard in situations like this unfortunately.

 

[Tugela]

Nope. He won't have to testify. He only has to answer "how do you plead?" with "not guilty" and then sit back and let Marie Henein work. This is the trial that has some substance to it, not the 4 "chancers" shooting for fame and glory.

The woman involved quit the her CBC job as producer of Ghomeshi's show because of his constant harassment and his statement "I want to hate fuck you" in front of numerous witnesses. The woman was working in California, but the reporter for the Toronto Star brought her back into unwanted contact with Ghomeshi with his article.

The reporter was writing the article because of "heads up" given him by many people at CBC who had had quite enough of Ghomeshi and wanted him gone. The woman, Kathryn Borel did a radio interview which can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens...e-allegations-against-jian-ghomeshi-1.2902636

There is a Macleans article here: http://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/busted-the-toxic-cbc-environment-that-abetted-jian-ghomeshi/

My personal opinion is that Jian Ghomeshi will be found guilty at the June 6 trial because there are a lot of witnesses.

As to why these well spoken truthfull witnesses wanted nothing to do with the Lucy DeCoutere show, well - you'd have to ask Lucy about that. Just know that Kathryn Borel refused to sign the charges if she was going to be mixed in with the Lucy DeCoutere show.

The trial is for sexual assault, but the "lot of witnesses" apparently relate to harassment, which is not relevant to the charge.

So it will probably end up being his word against hers.

 

[westwoody]

And had the emails been part of the crown's evidence.

I believe she chose to forget those emails. If she had disclosed them the Crown might not have pressed charges. If the Crown does not expect a conviction they will not proceed, usually.
She is rushing out her side of the story to make money from interviews or a book. A tragic victim of a miscarriage of justice will make more money than....I do not know what to call her now. Scheming? Manipulative. Professional victim?

Just because Ghomeshi is a jerk does not make her any better. Too many people see this as a good vs evil situation. They both look like jerks using each other to me. Attention whores that went too far.