COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO
DOHERTY, GILLESE and EPSTEIN JJ.A.
BETWEEN:
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN
Respondent
and
DARREN RENAUD AND MIKIAS MEKONNEN
Appellants
Jeffrey Langevin for the appellant
Xenia Proestos for the respondent
Heard: January 18, 2008
On appeal from the convictions entered by Justice J.F.R. Levesque of the Ontario Court of Justice dated October 23, 2006.
APPEAL BOOK ENDORSEMENT
1The appellants wisely abandoned their Charter arguments. Counsel submits that the trial judge failed to properly apply the third component of the reasonable doubt analysis outlined in R. v. W.D.
2We disagree. He articulated the burden of proof, reviewed the evidence and made findings of fact that were open to him on the evidence he accepted. On those findings, the verdicts were reasonable.
3Appeal dismissed.