Justice Bernette Ho denied William McBean’s software, stating his continued detention is within the public curiosity
A Calgary man serving a seven-year sentence for defrauding buyers of $2.4 million gained’t be freed earlier than an enchantment of his conviction is heard.
William Jordan McBean was convicted in January on 12 counts of fraud over $5,000. He has appealed and sought interim launch pending a choice.
In a written choice, Alberta Court docket of Attraction Justice Bernette Ho denied McBean’s software, stating his continued detention is within the public curiosity.
“I conclude that enforceability should take priority over reviewability given the report and the circumstances of this applicant,” she wrote final week.
Court docket heard McBean took $2 million from 11 victims who have been falsely promised charges they paid would enable entry to billions of {dollars} in financing. One other sufferer, a lady in her 70s, was scammed for US$425,035 — cash she paid to McBean for funding functions.
McBean’s enchantment argues the trial choose dominated on his request for an adjournment of his trial with out permitting him to make substantive submissions, stopping him from calling a key witness.
Ho mentioned McBean’s software for launch didn’t point out what proof the witness — who was crusing in Europe on the time of McBean’s trial — would supply.
“Taken at face worth, it isn’t clear what impression the possible testimony would have on the applicant’s conviction, if any,” she wrote.
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