10 — Wednesday, August 11, 1999 — North Shore News

Dear Editor:

Re: Leo Knight’s July 21
column “Hells Angel’s case
frustrates police.”

U represented Mr. kmond in
the matter of his extradition to

the US., the subject matter of

Mr. Knight's article.

Please note the following
facts:

1. The Canadian federal
Prosecution amended the
charges against Mr. Emond in

Montreal, Quebec, in 1987
with the agreement of the
District Attorney for Florida, in
order to accommedate the then
outstanding U.S. charges in
Florida.

2, When the Canadian court
(judge) was apprised of this, he
asked that the district attorney
for Florida be contacted to con-
firm his agreement to the court.
The court was stuod down and
a US. Customs agent did so

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and thereafter took the stand,
was sworn and advised the
court under oath he had indeed

Ken to the district attorney
for Florida, Mr. Chayken, and

that he was speaking on behalf

of the state of Florida who was
in agreement with:
a) an amended global charge

encompassing the state of

Florida allegations and charges
against Mr. Emond;
b) a global sentence of nine

years.

This information in court
transcriptions was and still is
available to Mr. Knight had he
wanted to seck our the facis.

All of the foregoing events
took place in 1987. Not onc
word was heard from the state
of Florida until late 1993 when
Mr. Emond was released on
parole.

Their allegation in’ their
extradition request that their

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charges against Mr. Emond
Were new and post-1987 were
the subject of a careful review
by the justice minister's office
and the Department of Justice’s
International Assistance Group.

To that end a special inde-
pendent Crown attorney was
appointed to investigate this by
the Attorney General of
Canada.

He attended Florida, investi-
gated and found no support for
their allegation. As a result the
justice minister was advised that
the state of Florida’s request
was based on the sam. facts and
allegations.

Your Mr. Knight’s opinion
that Floridi’s request “sounds
like a reasonable argument” to
him, is as you can see, com-
pletely devoid of a fact base.

Other allegations in his arti-
cle are also completely
unfounded. He states:

1. “While on parole, the
police say he continued to asso-
ciate with members of the Hells
Angels, a violation of his
parole.”

Mr. Emond was on very
strict bail terms while released

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on the extradition request. He
was the subiece of extreme
police scrutiny during this peri-
od. Are we to believe Mr.
Knight, that if Mr. Emond had
breached his bail cerms, the
police wouldn’t have loved to
arrest him and have his bail
revoked?

2. “Police sources claim
Emond is every bit as active as
ever...”

If that’s true and evidence
exists, instead of rumour and
gossip coupled with police sour
grapes, charge him with
offences so he can deal with
them.

Don’t make alleyations you
cannot support. As they say, talk
is cheap.

3. “Emond is still here.”
(B.C.)

When the extradition matter
was completed Mr. Emond
returned to Quebee where he
has resided ever since in order
to be with his family.

His father was very ill at the
time.

Ken S. Westlake
Barrister & Solicitor

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