Terrorist Chiheb Esseghaier who was sentenced to life in prison in 2015 for a failed attack on a VIA Rail train in Ontario has dropped his appeal. However, the county’s Court of Appeal first ordered an unprecedented investigation into his mental health, as he was being treated in detention for schizophrenia.
In a very simple judgment, the Ontario Court of Appeal explained that it was important to fully understand Chiheb Esseghaier’s approach because of his turbulent past.
Chiheb Esseghaier was found fit to appear at trial, but his health deteriorated sharply during his sentencing hearing.
At that time, Montrealer spat at the lawyers, he insulted the Crown prosecutors, he lay down on the dock of the accused to take a nap there.
The terrorist defended himself so well that his pleas were marked by delirium and hallucinations.
Reports were also filed in Ontario’s Superior Court about his mental instability, but the trial judge convicted him as a sober individual.
After his conviction, he received detention treatment for a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Thursday’s ruling, however, did not specify whether the individual had recently stopped taking his or her medication.
In the latest news, Chiheb Esseghaier is incarcerated at Abbotsford Penitentiary in British Columbia.
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As with any first-time trial, the appeal process implies that the plaintiff is eligible to appear at the appeal hearing.
Does his mental state have a connection to his wise decision to renounce his requestwondering at judges who say they want to protect the interests of Montrealers.
The Court of Appeal has the discretion to dismiss an application for abandonment if the applicant is mentally incapable of understanding what he or she is doing.
So he decided to appoint a friend of the court to hear the position of Esseghaier, his doctor and his lawyer if he agreed to be represented at this time.
No one knows the nature of the legal standard that the plaintiff must meet to abandon an appeal in such circumstances, as no such petition has been submitted to the Court of Appeal previously.
Attorney Chris Sewrattan explained, however, that the Court needs to try to see if Chiheb Esseghaier understands what the appeal procedure is, what such an abandonment means and what the consequences are that flow from it.
In criminal procedure, fitness is about your ability to appreciate what is happening, not the mastery of what you are doing.he said.
No hearing date has yet been set for the next meeting between the parties involved in the proceedings on this appeal.
Esseghaier’s intention to abandon his approach, however, had no effect on his accomplice’s decision to appeal his guilty verdict.
Torontonian Raed Jaser particularly disputes the fact that he was denied a trial alone and that he had to be tried in the company of a man with poor mental balance.
Two individuals wanted to blow up a railway bridge in the Toronto area in an attempt to derail a passenger train in 2012 on behalf of the Al-Qaeda group.
Source: Radio-Canada
