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From: tff@na.toronto.edu (Tom Fairgrieve)
Subject: re: Toronto Police
Message-ID: <89Jan27.095359est.10765@ephemeral.ai.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Distribution: tor
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 89 09:53:46 EST

  Norman S. Soley (soley@ontenv.UUCP)  writes :
>In the Donaldson case the investigations by both the crown council and
>the OPP recommended that no charges be laid due to insufficient
>evidence, someone somewhere in the Ministry of the Attorney General
>has chosen to IGNORE this advise. 

I believe that the Globe and Mail said that the initial investigation
was reviewed by two criminal lawyers at the Crown Law Office, and their
decision that there was sufficient evidence was examined by the director
of criminal division of the Crown Law Office (who is the "top" (or very close)
criminal lawyer at the Ministry).  The lawyers in this Office handle all 
appeals to the Ontario and Canadian Supreme Courts and are supposed to
be more "learned" than those in local offices.

Perhaps "IGNORE" is a bit too loaded. How about "came to a different 
conclusion"?