Defence counsel makes closing arguments at trial of two Whitecourt Mounties

Jurors heard last week that Brown fired her carbine rifle eight times, Stenger shot his pistol four times, and Crawford ultimately sustained 10 gunshot wounds.

Meanwhile, Stenger’s lawyer says her client was relying on the reactions of his colleagues before he fired four shots at a man that he thought was the suspect in a shooting the day before.

Mona Duckett told the jury that his position is that of reasonable and necessary self-defence.

Duckett says that officers were not jumping to conclusions and that they were making inferences with the information that they were given.

The prosecutor at the trial says that the case is about failing to do basic police work.

Crown attorney Linda Shin told the jury that Brown and Stenger made assumptions about the information that was given to them about Crawford.

Whitecourt RCMP was notified about the sighting of a purple pickup truck at a rest stop that was seen fleeing the area of a shooting the day before near Valhalla.

Over the last two weeks, the court heard there was confusion about whether its driver was considered a target or suspect in that shooting.

(The Canadian Press)

by The Canadian Press

Defence counsel makes closing arguments at trial of two Whitecourt Mounties

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