The trial of a former guard at the Regina Provincial Correctional Centre, accused of drug-running, is in the final stages. During final arguments delivered Thursday, the lawyer for Brent Taylor urged jurors not to believe everything they heard from witnesses for the prosecution. Lawyer James Korpan described one woman, who testified about how she prepared packages of loose tobacco — and drugs — for delivery to the jail, as unreliable.
"Her evidence seems to just change with the wind," Korpan said, pointing out that the woman was a drug user and that many people were coming and going from her house. Korpan added that his client has only admitted to bringing tobacco, and only tobacco, to inmates on three occasions. He also noted that Taylor never hid or disguised himself when he went to the woman's house to pick up tobacco. He described Taylor's actions as open and transparent, and inconsistent with someone involved in drug-running. The packages looked like regular pouches of loose tobacco and there was no reason for Taylor to think they were anything else.
He reminded the jurors of Taylor's adamant denial, in a police interview, of bringing drugs into the jail. He said Taylor, in that interview, was understandably concerned about his job because of the jail's policy banning tobacco. The crown's case was largely based on testimony from the two women who allegedly prepared the tobacco packages, and a lengthy investigation by police, who spent months tracking Taylor's movements. The next step in the trial is for jurors to receive instructions from the judge and begin their deliberations.
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