The defendant was charged with multiple firearms-related offences and assault of a police officer following a police pursuit that ended on an on-ramp to the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto.
The central factual dispute concerned whether the defendant threw a loaded handgun over a guardrail or whether a co-occupant of the vehicle did so.
The Crown relied on eyewitness testimony from two civilian bystanders who observed the defendant throw the gun, while the defence argued the gun was thrown by another occupant and the civilians misperceived the events due to their temporal and spatial coincidence.
The court found the defendant guilty of ten counts, including nine weapons-related offences and one count of failure to comply with a probation order, but acquitted him of assaulting a police officer.
