Prosecution
WHAT MOTIVATES Leo McGuigan, a fiercely "honourable" man who is well known for his capacity to prosecute? Whatever it is, it certainly is not the drive to discover the whole truth. His record is very clear. The only indisputable is a fierce, relentless determination to prosecute. Ironically, Mr. McGuigan's talents are responsible for the fact that he can be either good or bad, depending upon the defining circumstances; good when a particular defendant is in fact guilty, bad when he prosecutes an innocent person. If Mr. McGuigan fails to uphold the integrity of his position, it is because he has evidently decided to presume that every suspect is guilty and that every investigative impropriety is simply, to use one of his favourite arguments, a "red herring" .What McGuigan ultimately promotes, when he assumes that every suspect is guilty and every authority is beyond reproach, is an "on demand" capacity to pervert justice.
If anyone is directly aware of the potential to
pervert justice, it should be Leo McGuigan. In 1982,
he was responsible for convicting Neil Proverbs, and
that was atrial that put the entire justice system
under an embarrassing spotlight. The judicial
corruption allegations that the Proverbs case
recorded, are staggering. Proverbs set out to defend
himself against a weapons charge by proving that the
police officers who testified against him had lied, so
he established an elaborate "sting" operation which
produced 37 hours of secretly recorded videotape.
The tapes effectively put the credibility of the
entire justice system under a microscope, and even a
common unspeakable like judicial corruption, became a
subject of scrutiny. Evidence which included the
recorded testimony of police officers discussing and
bragging about their abilities to lie convincingly, do
not exactly reinforce faith in the justice system. The
authorities made light of these so-called tales of
judicial corruption and repeatedly suggested that they
were mere fictions, but these "denials " clearly lacked
credibility. Neil Proverbs was facing a charge of
possessing a weapon dangerous to the public peace, and
videotaped evidence recorded Sergeant George Reynolds
advising Proverbs on how to beat the rap. According to
Reynolds, the idea is not to deny police evidence,
because the police tend to be believed, but to "blunt"
and "circumvent" it.
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