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Dr. Christy Natsis will be home in time for Christmas after Ontario’s Court of Appeal agreed to release her on bail pending a legal challenge to her convictions for impaired and dangerous driving causing death.
The Pembroke dentist who was sentenced to five years in prison earlier this month for causing the death of 50-year-old father of three Bryan Casey in a March 31, 2011 head-on crash on Hwy. 17 near Arnprior was granted bail Friday by the Court of Appeal. The Crown consented to her release.
She will remain under bail conditions similar to the conditions she was under prior to being sentenced, said her lawyer Matthew Gourlay.
Before she is released, Natsis intends to complete a 40-day jail sentence she received for breaching her bail conditions in November 2011, said Gourlay. Natsis violated her bail by buying two bottles of vodka at a downtown Ottawa LCBO.
Unless Natsis seeks early parole, she will receive statutory release after serving two-thirds of that sentence, or 26 days. That means she’ll be released by Dec. 7.
It is not uncommon for people who have been convicted and sentenced to prison or jail time to be released on bail pending their appeal.
To qualify for bail, the offender needs to establish that the appeal is not frivolous, will surrender into custody and that continued detention is not necessary in the public interest. People who are released on bail pending appeal are usually put under a variety of conditions, including the requirement to report back to jail one day prior to the appeal being heard.
Natsis’s appeal centres on what she alleges were errors made by the judge regarding the admission and reliability of the expert evidence of the OPP officers who investigated the collision. The judge had found the principal collision investigator was biased, but accepted his report and reports of other officers based on the biased officer’s findings.
Natsis further alleged that the trial judge’s reasons for finding Natsis guilty were “legally insufficient” given they “entirely fail to engage” with her defence lawyers’ 100-page attack on the technical and expert evidence of the investigating officers.
A date for Natsis’s appeal has yet to be set.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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The Pembroke dentist who was sentenced to five years in prison earlier this month for causing the death of 50-year-old father of three Bryan Casey in a March 31, 2011 head-on crash on Hwy. 17 near Arnprior was granted bail Friday by the Court of Appeal. The Crown consented to her release.
She will remain under bail conditions similar to the conditions she was under prior to being sentenced, said her lawyer Matthew Gourlay.
Before she is released, Natsis intends to complete a 40-day jail sentence she received for breaching her bail conditions in November 2011, said Gourlay. Natsis violated her bail by buying two bottles of vodka at a downtown Ottawa LCBO.
Unless Natsis seeks early parole, she will receive statutory release after serving two-thirds of that sentence, or 26 days. That means she’ll be released by Dec. 7.
It is not uncommon for people who have been convicted and sentenced to prison or jail time to be released on bail pending their appeal.
To qualify for bail, the offender needs to establish that the appeal is not frivolous, will surrender into custody and that continued detention is not necessary in the public interest. People who are released on bail pending appeal are usually put under a variety of conditions, including the requirement to report back to jail one day prior to the appeal being heard.
Natsis’s appeal centres on what she alleges were errors made by the judge regarding the admission and reliability of the expert evidence of the OPP officers who investigated the collision. The judge had found the principal collision investigator was biased, but accepted his report and reports of other officers based on the biased officer’s findings.
Natsis further alleged that the trial judge’s reasons for finding Natsis guilty were “legally insufficient” given they “entirely fail to engage” with her defence lawyers’ 100-page attack on the technical and expert evidence of the investigating officers.
A date for Natsis’s appeal has yet to be set.
aseymour@ottawacitizen.com
Twitter.com/andrew_seymour
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