COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO

CITATION: R. v. Renaud, 2008 ONCA 44

DATE: 20080123

DOCKET: C46795

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

[1] The 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.

[2] We 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.

[3] Appeal dismissed.