- Just as he was last week, Barry McLaughlin (widely known as a media guru) was in the courtroom once more today
- There were so many boxes of documents and papers that the defence had someone bring in an additional cart that was stacked with about 10 boxes
- Court will not be in session on May 28th because O’Brien requested the day off to attend his son’s graduation from McGill
- Hutchison wanted to go through the charges O’Brien is facing as they are “not offences we deal with on a regular basis”
- When explaining the verbose charge under section 121 that doesn’t read very easily, Hutchison said it was “something only a lawyer could have written”
- A major source of contention: the date the alleged first meeting between Kilrea and O’Brien is said to have occurred. In his opening statement Hutchison said it was July 12… this was the same date Kilrea later testified to as well. The Defence points out in Kilrea’s affidavit the date is actually July 5.
- Kilrea testifies that when O’Brien made him the offer of the National Parole Board during that first meeting, he “most certainly did” consider it
- In emails between Kilrea and John Baird, Baird is referred to by his nickname “Rusty”
- Kilrea testifies that when he was notified the Attorney General was interfering with his campaign citing a conflict of interest, Kilrea sent an email to Baird in which he states “I hate Liberals”
- Kilrea testifies that when he met with Baird to discuss the situation with the Attorney General, Baird offered to call Michael Bryant but Kilrea told him not to
- During cross-examination when Edelson asks Kilrea about an interview on CFRA on April 7 with Ron Corbett, Kilrea states he can’t remember all the details from the interview to which Edelson says he’s mystified that Kilrea doesn’t remember the content from such a recent interview but does remember dates from 2006
- When Edelson asks if he is politically savvy, Kilrea says “No… I’m not a politically correct individual”
- At one point Kilrea yawns and Edelson says “I’m sorry I’ll try not to bore you.” This is the first time the Crown objects.
- During cross-examination Edelson points to contradictory information from Kilrea. He says that during the interview with CFRA’s Ron Corbett, Kilrea said he’d never run against an incumbent again. When Edelson asks whether he’d run against councillor Alex Cullen in 2010 in the event that Cullen doesn’t run for mayor but runs as a councillor again, Kilrea says he will.
