May 15/12 - Old article I had not seen before. Makes me believe we will not get to see TLM's full SOF until and/or if MR appeals and everything has been settled. MR will more than likely not appeal because then TLM's full SOF will be published and the public will get more horrific detail on what the sickos actually did to poor Tori April 8, 2009. JMO
Michael Rafferty Trial: Was McClintic Publication Ban Worth It? Personally I say YES the partial ban was needed as it gave MR one less reason to file an appeal. JMO
A jury found Michael Rafferty guilty Friday of first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping in Tori's death.
All of the details from McClintic's plea were heard at Rafferty's trial, mostly when she took the stand as the Crown's key witness, but the controversial publication ban only ended with Rafferty's verdicts.
The Crown suggested that only the facts pertaining to McClintic alone should be published. McDermid accepted that approach, ruling the following day that the media could essentially publish all the details of the plea except for those that referred directly or indirectly to Rafferty.
"The public has a right to know now that … there was no intention to conduct a secret hearing and a secret hearing was not held," McDermid said in his ruling on May 19, 2010. "It is also important for the public to know there was no plea bargain."
But Derstine said his client wanted to appeal that ruling to the Supreme Court, so the total publication ban was extended until the highest court's ruling on whether Rafferty could pursue that appeal.
The Supreme Court declined to hear Derstine's appeal, so on Dec. 9, 2010, media outlets could publish the facts from McClintic's plea that McDermid had allowed. Her telling of how Tori was raped and killed was not publicly reported until she testified at Rafferty's trial this year.
Here's hoping Mikey does have colon cancer (which he told others he had) and herpes and other STDs, and they are all eating him up slowly and painfully while he's caged in his new home at KP. Have a torturous, painful, depressing life there Mikey. I hope no one comes to see you you pathetic piece of *****. JMOHO.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/05/14/rafferty-trial-mcclintic-publication-ban_n_1516254.html