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Kevin MacKinnon
Kevin MacKinnon was
convicted because his defence counsel was so sure that the Crown's
circumstantial case would not pass judicial scrutiny that he
failed to put forward key alibi evidence. MacKinnon's name was
given to police by a criminal who stood to gain from "helping"
police -- just one step up from a jailhouse snitch.
Right to Appeal, Unlawfully
Interfered with by Edmonton Institution.
Press release, November
2,2000
Edmonton After a month
of persistent efforts by Kevin MacKinnon to defend the
Right to Appeal and to Appeal without interference or hindrance;
the Edmonton Institution has moved to deprive him of all his
legal material.
While the institution admits
everyone has the Right to Appeal; it has now eliminated
the very material MacKinnon needs, to exercise that Right, from
his possession.
After initial placement in
1995, MacKinnon began his sentence at Drumheller institution,
where he says he had no interferences with his legal efforts,
and that institution respected the Right to Appeal and Rights
protecting the associated legal material needed to do so. He
says it also did not interfere with his communications or community
ties, vital to performing that legal work.
When MacKinnon was transferred
to Bowden institution in 1999 due to administrative concerns
and to be closer to his daughters and family, he immediately
ran into problems and interferences with his protected legal
material, there.
Bowden institution first lost
a set of his trial transcripts and later actually took and/or
destroyed other portions of his legal material. MacKinnon properly
used the CSC Redress system to address those unlawful violations
and other harassment issues he was made to suffer at the institution.
He also contacted several outside offices about this but received
no response, or ones which failed to address the issues. The
RCMP questionably chose to leave it in the hands of the prison,
much like leaving the fox in charge of the henhouse.
It was MacKinnon's open call
of accountability upon the Warden Kassen; Chief Correspondence
& Visits, Mr. Everett Olsen; CO II, Mr. Gary Maylon; CCO,
Mr. Jensen (who at least admits his involvement to the destruction
of a portion of MacKinnon's legal material, in writing), for
their responsibility of various unlawful acts which ultimately
led to the institution overriding MacKinnon's security rating
and involuntarily transferring to Edmonton Maximum institution,
where he is now.
Immediately upon arriving at
Edmonton, on Oct 4 th , MacKinnon made it very clear to all staff
whom he came in contact with, how important it was he have his
legal material and computer to continue his various legal efforts
and related work.
His legal works includes institutional
grievances, a civil matter, an application to Federal Court regarding
Bowden and the transfer. Meeting the demands of various agencies
and people helping him; and, of course, with his wrongful conviction
appeal work.
To date, no legal material
or his computer has been provided to MacKinnon. Instead, Mr.
Edmond Howard, (chief of prisoner properties at Edmonton), chose
to pressure MacKinnon's mother. Bringing her to tears with concern
and worry by going behind MacKinnon's back and coercing her with
looming threats of its actual destruction.
On November 1 st , she rushed
up from just north of Calgary to pick up what personal and legal
material remained after it had been seized, thoroughly searched
and read by the institution.
MacKinnon never provided consent
for this. Until a video and inventory is done, it is unclear
to what extent there may be missing exhibits, grievances or other
legal material. However, it is clear some are already missing.
After she arrived at the institution,
it became clear this bums-rush by the institution may well have
been due to an investigator scheduled to see MacKinnon the next
day, about being kept from his legal material.
By it not being at the facility
MacKinnon was knowingly prevented from fairly presenting his
case, and the investigator from seeing it. The tactic also took
away the opportunity from MacKinnon to defend the institution's
unfounded allegation he had his "relevant" legal material;
likewise opening allegations that his mother is responsible for
missing items. Which the institution began making before it was
actually gone.
Once the property is out of
the prison, regulations do not allow for it to be normally returned.
Ironically, MacKinnon was told the legal material could be mailed
back in by his lawyer. An intolerable cost. Due to not having
the money to hire a lawyer for fair representation, MacKinnon
has been forced to do the Appeal work and represent himself.
MacKinnon has maintained his
innocence of the 1994 Calgary shooting death of Mr. Laine Berube
and stressfully wonders why CSC has consistently been interfering
with his legal material for the past year and half. Now suffering
having it completely removed from his possession against the
lawful Right to have it and use it without hindrance.
Defining its legal limits,
Mr. G. Rodrigue of Correctional Service Canada (CSC) Regional
Headquarters states in a grievance response that " the
roll of CSC is a administer your sentence. " Yet; in
MacKinnon's case it has overstepped its known bounds, and directly
interfered with his Appeal work and legal efforts. Thereby preventing
him from completing that work and from being able to bring his
appeals to the courts.
His mother's website | European website
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