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December 22, 1993

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HOOP HOPEFULS 6N. Shore girls’

teams to compete in basketball tournament

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SPECIAL SONG Harvest Project's

David Foster releases Walk to Bethichem

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NORTH SHORE News dispatch driver Heather Barabas and Bryan Hamilton, Janet King and John Calcutt of Lonsdale Quay, load some of the 23 hampers assembled and collected by Lonsdale Quay shoppers and me:chants. Each hamper contains boxes of fresh market pro- ducts, tinned food and gifts. Market shoppers adopted a family when purchasing goods and merchants supplied some items as well.

Court finds Bellingham teen innocent in stabbing of Deep Cove youth

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FRIENDS AND relatives of a young North Vancouver man__ said the youth faced a six-year jail stabbed to death in Bellingham earlier this year expressed disbelief over the acquittal last week of the 15-year-old Bellingham youth charged with murder as a result of the

killing.

Deep Cove resident Pat Camp- bell, 18, died July 5 after being stabbed. The teen was among a group of nine Canadians involved in an argument with a group of Bellingham youths.

Campbell’s 15-year-old attacker faced a second-degree murder charge during a four-day trial held in the juvenile division. of Washington’s Superior Court in

By Anna Marie D’Angelo News Reporter

Bellingham.

He was found not guilty by Washington Superior Court Judge Steve Mura. The judge determined the youth acted in self-defence.

Defence lawyer Michael Tario

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term had he been found guilty.

Tario said an appeal is not possible because his client was found to be innocent. Only guilty decisions may be appealed, he said.

But said Campbell’s cousin, Vancouver resident Loreen Long, “f didn’t see the information presented from either side sup- ported that it would be innocent in self-defence. I guess [ was shocked."

The fight started when Camp- bell and fellow Seycove secondary school grad Kingsley Davis asked the (S-year-old for a cigarette.

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The Canadians were in

ingham to participate in American

Independence Day celebrations and to celebrate Davis’ birthday.

The 15-year-old was -assaulted when he didn’t produce the ciga- rette.

The fight escalated as teens on both sides, Canadians and Amer- icans, became involved.

The 15-year-old returned to the group of Caredians and stabbed Campbell in 2600-block of Utter Street in a residential area of Bellingham.

The youth testified he stabbed Campbell in a random swing.

Davis pleaded guilty to an

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assault charge stemming from the incident:

He was jailed three days, fined $300, and received 362 days’ pro- bation.

Mura, in his decision, said the 15-year-old was defending himself for fear of his life or serious bodily hari, said Jon Buchanan, Campbell’s friend who attended part of the trial.

Allegations made during the trial that the incident may have been racially motivated were disputed by Long and Buchanan. Both note that Campbell was par- tially of Korean descent and the 15-year-old is black.

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