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An international student from Ghana, who attended the University of Windsor, is at risk of deportation.
File photo of the Superior Court of Justice in Windsor, Ont., Nov.19, 2013. (Melanie Borrelli / CTV Windsor)
Written on January 31, 2017
An international student from Ghana, who attended the University of Windsor, is at risk of deportation.
Francis Yaw Tweneboah-Koduah was sentenced to 26 months in jail following a conviction of sexual assault.
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A key piece of evidence will be excluded when the trial resumes for two men charged in a downtown Windsor shooting.
22-year-old Kevin Nyadu and 26-year-old Shadrack Amankwa, both of Brampton, are charged in the October 2014 shooting at the Boom Boom Room where a worker was shot.
The work suffered non-life threatening injuries.
A judge ruled today that Nyadu’s Charter of Rights was breached because Windsor police did not act upon Nyadu’s right to speak to a lawyer in a timely manner prior to a gunshot residue test.
The test found there was gunshot residue on three spots Nyadu’s hand but with the charter breach, the results can’t be used in trial.
Nyadu’s lawyer Patricia Brown says Windsor police failed to give Nyadu access to a phone.
“He did find that his rights were given but an accused while they are in custody also has a right to access counsel, that right can only be facilitated by the officers in the holding facility or the officers who are detaining them,” said Brown.
“He (Nyadu) was not allowed to contact a lawyer or speak to counsel until after they took that evidence from him.”
The judge found there was a “fundamental inattention to the charter rights” for Nyadu.
The trial resumes in April.
Nyadu is charged with attempted murder along with weapons offences while Amankwa is charged with accessory to commit attempted murder and other weapons offences.
Gunshot residue collected from the hands of a man accused of shooting the bouncer at a downtown nightclub in 2014 cannot be used as evidence in his trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
The Boom Boom Room at 315 Ouellette Ave., is pictured on Oct. 5, 2014 — the day of an early morning shooting. PHOTO BY DAX MELMER /Windsor Star
Written by Dylan Kristy on February 1, 2017
Gunshot residue collected from the hands of a man accused of shooting the bouncer at a downtown nightclub in 2014 cannot be used as evidence in his trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Superior Court Justice J. Paul Howard ruled that Windsor police did not provide Kevin Mantley Nyadu with access to legal counsel within a reasonable amount of time after his arrest — violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Nyadu was arrested on Oct. 5, 2014, at a parking lot on Victoria Avenue at Park Street not long after Windsor police responded to reports of a shooting at the Boom Boom Room at 2:37 a.m.
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A 20-year-old former University of Windsor student is out on bail as he appeals his conviction on a count of sexual assault.
FEATURED PHOTO: Lawyer Patricia Brown (photo by AM800’s Peter Langille)
Written on Tuesday, January 31, 2017
A 20-year-old former University of Windsor student is out on bail as he appeals his conviction on a count of sexual assault.
Francis Tweneboah-Koduah was sentenced to 26 months in jail by the trial judge and is ordered to give a DNA sample to be on the sex offender registry for 20 years.
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