Ottawa Citizen
December 3, 2010
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| Raymond Lahey, 69, who stepped down abruptly as the bishop of Antigonish in Nova Scotia, at the Ottawa Police station |
The trial for a former Nova Scotia bishop accused of possessing and importing child pornography has been shortened to three days next May.
Raymond Lahey's trial was originally scheduled to take nine days, beginning in late April.
Lahey's lawyer, Michael Edelson, told Ontario Court Justice Lise Maisonneuve on Friday that he and the Crown had narrowed the issues and no longer required the extra six days. Lahey's trial is now set for May 4 to 6.
In October, Edelson cancelled five days in November that had been set aside for Lahey to argue that authorities had violated his Charter rights.
Lahey was charged with possession and importation of child pornography last September after his laptop computer was searched and seized when the Roman Catholic priest got off a flight from Britain.
According to court documents, Lahey was flagged by customs authorities when he landed because his passport revealed extensive travel to countries notorious as sources of the illicit material.
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