The Crown says it will present a 'very lengthy' response next week to an defence application to have Ibrahim Ali's first-degree murder conviction thrown out because of delays. A jury found Ali guilty in the death of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby park in 2017.
The prosecution in the Ibrahim Ali murder case says it will take three days next week trying to prove five years, two months and 29 days was not an unreasonable delay in getting to the end of Ali's trial.
Relying on nearly 4,000 pages of scheduling transcripts, McCullough argued the defence was responsible for just three months of delay out of the 63 months between Ali being charged in September 2018 and the end of his trial this past December. Central to the delays, McCullough argued, was Bernard's decision in August 2020 to deny a request by Ali's original defence team to have the case adjourned because of a double booking with another case.
But Ali's entire legal team quit for "ethical reasons" just days after their adjournment request was denied, setting the case back while a new defence team came on board – and the trial didn't start until April 2023.
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