N.B. prosecutors seeking to revive case against officers in businessman’s death
FREDERICTON — New Brunswick prosecutors have taken the unusual step of seeking a judicial review of a judge’s decision in a bid to revive a high-profile case involving a fatal police shooting in Bathurst, N.B., two years ago.
The province’s Public Prosecutions Services issued a brief statement Tuesday alleging the presiding judge was wrong to throw out manslaughter charges against two officers in the shooting death of a Tracadie businessman.
The Crown lawyers say the judge made a jurisdictional error by failing to consider all of the relevant evidence at the conclusion of the officers’ preliminary hearing in February.
Const. Patrick Bulger and Const. Mathieu Boudreau were charged in the death of 51-year-old Michel Vienneau, who was shot in his vehicle outside the Bathurst train station on Jan. 12, 2015.