Cameron Bakker was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury.
This decision provides written reasons for five pre-trial and trial rulings: (1) the Crown's application to introduce the accused's prior statement about street fights (dismissed due to voluntariness concerns and prejudicial effect outweighing probative value); (2) defence counsel's attempt to introduce hearsay through Crown witnesses (restricted as improper); (3) defence counsel's application to exclude members of the public from the courtroom during a witness's testimony (partially granted to exclude specific intimidating individuals, not the general public); (4) defence counsel's request for a jury charge on the defence of accident (declined due to lack of an air of reality); and (5) the response to a jury question regarding the definition of a reasonable person and the relevance of intoxication in self-defence and objective foreseeability for manslaughter (intoxication deemed irrelevant to these objective standards).
