Court of Appeal for Ontario
Citation: R. v. MacLaurin, 2014 ONCA 885 Date: 2014-12-08 Docket: C56336
Before: Watt, van Rensburg and Pardu JJ.A.
Between
Her Majesty the Queen Respondent
and
Tara Theresa MacLaurin Appellant
Counsel: Mason Millar, for the appellant Jeanette Gevikoglu, for the respondent
Heard: December 5, 2014
On appeal from the conviction entered on September 24, 2012 by Justice D. Pettit Baig of the Ontario Court of Justice.
APPEAL BOOK ENDORSEMENT
1The appellant advances only one ground of appeal. She submits that the trial judge erred in rejecting her evidence on the basis that she could not reasonably have feared that the police would seize money from her as proceeds of crime after they had returned it to her on the previous day.
2The trial judge gave several reasons for rejecting the appellant’s evidence. This was among them. The inference the trial judge drew in this respect was one that was reasonably available to her on the evidence. We see no basis on which to interfere with the trial judge’s assessment of that evidence.
3The appeal is dismissed.