Former Alberta MLA Derek Fildebrandt was acquitted Friday on charges of uttering threats against a group of teenage boys.
Former Alberta MLA Derek Fildebrandt fist-pumped from the prisoner's box as a Calgary judge acquitted him on all four counts of uttering threats to a group of 13- and 14-year-old boys whom he chased in a truck through his southwest neighbourhood last spring.
Fildebrandt's lawn ornaments had been stolen in the past, and when he spotted a group of teens outside his house, "he concluded, wrongly, that the complainants were either stealing or damaging the ornaments," wrote Fradsham.Fildebrandt became enraged when he mistakenly believed the four boys were damaging "No Peeing" and "No Pooping" dog signs on his lawn.
Although Fradsham found all of the witnesses credible, the judge ruled that some of their evidence was unreliable, including testimony from Fildebrandt and the boys.
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