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Jury begins deliberations in Tim Bosma murder trial
By MOLLY HAYES Hamilton Spectator
Mon., June 13, 2016

The jury is out.

All of the evidence is in. The closing arguments are done. The judge’s charge has been delivered.

All that is left to do now, for the six men and six women on the jury in the Tim Bosma murder trial, is to deliberate — and determine the fates of accused killers Dellen Millard and Mark Smich.

“Keep an open mind, but not an empty head,” was Justice Andrew Goodman’s final direction to the jurors.

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“Only you are the judges of the facts,” Goodman told the jury.

But what the jurors do not know — what they were never told — is that this is not the only murder charge faced by the two accused.

 

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Tim Bosma trial decision now in the hands of the jury
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Jun 13, 2016

After 4½ gruelling months, the jury is now deliberating on a verdict at the trial of the two men accused of killing Hamilton man Tim Bosma.

In the second day of an extremely technical charge to the jury, Justice Andrew Goodman told jurors they must disregard lawyers' suggestions that have no evidentiary foundation.

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Judge tells jury not to consider Bosma family

During the trial, court has heard myriad suggestions as to what happened on the night Bosma was killed, from the Crown and both defence teams. The Crown's theory is that Bosma was shot in a field near his home. Millard's lawyers suggested that Bosma had been accidentally shot on Highway 403, a theory not supported by evidence, Goodman said.

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Decision trees to help guide jury

Also Monday, the judge began running through his decision trees — which act as a kind of flow chart to those verdicts depending on how the jury interprets the evidence. The trees, which can be exceptionally complex, provide four different avenues in which the jury can reach a verdict.

"Your duty is to consider all of the evidence, not just the parts that I referenced," Goodman said.

Of the four trees:

 

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What the jury wasn't allowed to hear
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Jun 13, 2016

The jury in the Tim Bosma trial in Hamilton never heard about Dellen Millard's drug dealing, nor the fact he and Mark Smich may have owned more than one gun.

Those are just two of the numerous pieces of evidence that Justice Andrew Goodman ruled as inadmissible in the trial of the two men accused of killing Bosma in 2013.

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An affinity for guns, and more than 1

Though the jury heard its fair share about Millard's and Smich's affinity for guns, lots of evidence was ruled out.

Some of that evidence came from texts between Millard and alleged gun dealer Matthew Ward Jackson — also known as "lisho."

In one text message exchange from February 2012, when talking about brokering a deal for what is believed to be the gun used to shoot Bosma, Millard said to Jackson: "BTW, is it clean or dirty?" Jackson responded, "clean," and then "bring her back safe plz."

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Millard, Smich sold and used drugs

The jury heard that Millard and Smich smoked pot, that Smich used Oxycodone and was once arrested for cocaine possession, and that Andrew Michalski rounded up all the drugs in Millard's home and dropped them in a stairwell for Smich after Millard's arrest.

The jury wasn't told, however, that Millard and Smich were involved in a lot more than just marijuana — and while Millard's lawyers made sure to point out that Smich sold drugs every chance they could, Millard sold drugs too.

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Millard also sent a computer packed with drugs like steroids and pot to Michalski at one point when he was in Winnipeg, court heard. During Arthur Jennings's testimony, there was a voir dire where Millard's lawyers talked about a trailer that mechanic Shane Schlatman was building for Millard with secret compartments built inside.

Speculation was that it was designed to import narcotics.

 

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Smuggling plots, hard drugs and foreboding messages: What the jury didn’t hear in the Tim Bosma murder trial
Adrian Humphreys | June 14, 2016

Justice Andrew Goodman deemed much material inadmissible at trial, typically to protect the rights of the accused at this trial or the next. Some of it can now be revealed because the jury has been sequestered, meaning they are kept behind closed doors with no outside contact accept through an assigned court constable.

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• Millard hinted he planned a shooting

There were more than 26,000 text messages retrieved from Millard’s iPhone by police after his arrest. Some are surprising.

It is a sign of the times that Millard appears to have arranged to buy an illegal gun — a Walther PPK, named as the murder weapon at trial — through text messages. Many were read to the jury. Goodman, however, ordered prosecutors to remove the end of the gun-buy conversation, which seems to be the most incriminating portion.

• Bizarre smuggling plots

In one of the more bizarre twists, it was alleged Millard owned a fake pregnancy suit — a flesh-coloured, strap-on belly bulge — and wanted Smich’s girlfriend, Marlena Meneses, to wear it to smuggle ammunition across the border.

The pregnancy suit was revealed by Meneses when she was interviewed by police in 2013.

“Dellen Millard asked me to carry bullets from the U.S. to Canada in a baby — I mean pregnancy — suit,” she said when questioned about it when the jury was not in the room.


• Secret jailhouse letters

Millard was a prodigious letter writer when he was in jail and somehow his letters managed to get out of the secure prison and into the hands of various friends.

The jury read many of his letters.

What they read often featured black bars covering portions of the page, so they knew they weren’t seeing the full picture.

• Additional jailhouse letters

The jury heard about many of Millard’s letters to Noudga, but never heard about the letters to Shane Schlatman, his right-hand man at his airport hangar.

Both Schlatman and Noudga were on a court-ordered list of people Millard was to have no contact with.

The jury didn’t hear about Millard’s mother passing letters to Schlatman. Smich’s lawyers wanted to enter these letters into the record to show the range of people Millard was trying to control, direct or manipulate while he awaited trial.

 

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Tracing Tim Bosma’s sad end from when he left home to the discovery of DNA on the incinerator
Adrian Humphreys and Brice Hall | June 15, 2016 | Last Updated: Jun 16

Tim Bosma trial: Praying woman interrupts proceedings
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Jun 15, 2016

A woman barged into a courtroom and interrupted the proceedings as jurors in the Tim Bosma trial reconvened to review evidence in the case of two men accused of killing the Hamilton resident.

The disruption in Ontario Superior Court happened just before 10:30 a.m. ET. The jury was reviewing the testimony of Matt Hagerman, who had been in the witness box in April.

The woman, who appeared to be in her late 40s or early 50s, walked into court in Hamilton and said something unintelligible.

She then went to a corner of the courtroom, knelt and began to pray, with her hands clasped together.

Justice Andrew Goodman stopped the playback of Hagerman's testimony, and court officers escorted the woman out.

Deliberations have been suspended after juror becomes ill in the Tim Bosma trial.

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Tim Bosma trial: Millard and Smich guilty of 1st-degree murder
By Adam Carter, CBC News Posted: Jun 17, 2016

Cheers and applause erupted outside a Hamilton courtroom Friday after Dellen Millard and Mark Smich were both found guilty of first-degree murder in the slaying of Hamilton's Tim Bosma.

Outside the courthouse, Bosma's widow Sharlene thanked the "village" of supporters who have helped her family get through the past three years since her husband disappeared after taking Millard and Smich on a test drive of a truck he was trying to sell.

"For over three years, we have waited for justice for Tim," she said. "For three years we have been in and out of this courthouse, forced to look at, and breathe in the same space as the utter depths of depravity in our society.

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Both men have been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 25 years, or at least until 2038. Millard and Smich are each facing a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Toronto woman Laura Babcock, while Millard has also been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his own father.

If convicted of the other two crimes, Millard would meet the criteria for being considered a serial killer.

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Before the verdicts were read, Millard was smiling as he sat in the courtroom. He looked Smich up and down in the prisoner's box, but Smich would not return his gaze.

Millard's smile vanished after he was found guilty of murder. Smich just stared at the floor.

Smich's lawyer, Thomas Dungey, said after court ended that there are "very strong grounds for appeal." Dungey said he chose not to speak to the media after the verdict to allow the Bosma family time to say their piece.

Millard's lawyers would not comment on whether they will seek an appeal.

 

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Dellen Millard, Mark Smich found guilty of first-degree murder in Tim Bosma case
By MOLLY HAYESThe Hamilton Spectator
Fri., June 17, 2016

The courtroom erupted in cheers and cries as the jury foreperson read out the verdicts, culminating an exhaustive five-month trial more than three years after the 32-year-old Ancaster dad was senselessly murdered for his pickup truck.

“For three years, we have been in and out of this courthouse, forced to look at and breathe in the same space with the utter depths of depravity in our society,” Sharlene Bosma, Tim’s widow, said in a speech outside the courthouse afterward.

“We have had to endure being near the two men that walked down my driveway . . . and took away the bright light in our lives that was Tim.”

“For Tim’s murderers, their life sentence begins now. Ours began over three years ago — when they murdered Tim.”

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Justice Andrew Goodman had harsh words Friday for the murderers, who have both been sentenced to a mandatory life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years.

“(Their) despicable and callous actions have not taken away Tim Bosma’s memory and spirit, as demonstrated by the Bosma family’s presence in this courtroom throughout these proceedings, and their strength of character,” Goodman told the packed courtroom in Hamilton’s John Sopinka Courthouse.

 

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Laughter and tears follow guilty verdicts for ‘despicable and callous’ Tim Bosma murder
Adrian Humphreys | June 18, 2016

Sharlene Bosma smiles and celebrates with her family and that of her late husband Tim Bosma, after the guilty verdicts of Dellen Millard and Mark Smich on Friday, June 17, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter Power

HAMILTON, Ont. — It was a day of strong voices, starting with each juror at the trial for the killing of Tim Bosma, standing one by one in a packed courtroom and declaring both Dellen Millard and Mark Smich guilty of first-degree murder.

Then came Judge Andrew Goodman, who broke with practice and addressed court before imposing sentences, saying Bosma’s killing was “reprehensible and unimaginable” and calling Millard and Smich’s actions “despicable and callous.”

Next, a spontaneous roar of elated cheers erupted from a crowd of onlookers who were not able to get inside the courtroom as the Bosma family walked out; another when the three prosecutors emerged in their black robes and a third for the detectives who led the chase to arrest the pair.

And finally, by dinnertime, after leading a large entourage — her “village” of supporters, as she called them — across Main Street to address the media and a swelling crowd of clapping passersby, came the remarkably poised words of a vibrant Sharlene Bosma, Tim Bosma’s widow.

 

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Tim Bosma’s family launches lawsuit against his killers
Aug 19, 2016
By Molly Hayes

After finding justice in criminal court, Tim Bosma's family is now hoping for the same in civil court as they pursue a lawsuit against the Ancaster dad's killers.

The $14-million suit was filed quietly in London, Ont. Superior Court last May — more than a year before Dellen Millard and Mark Smich would be found guilty of first-degree murder in the 32-year-old's death.

Bosma's parents, Hank and Mary, his widow, Sharlene, and their daughter (who is listed as "Jane Doe" to protect her privacy), are the listed plaintiffs, claiming damages under the Family Law Act for both financial and emotional losses.

"I can tell you, for Sharlene and for Tim's parents, it has never been about recovering money," London-based civil lawyer Jennifer Chapman told The Spectator Friday.

 

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Ann Brocklehurst ‏@AnnB03 [video=twitter;775412265642233857]https://twitter.com/AnnB03/status/775412265642233857[/video]
Heard Wonder Wall at the supermarket, thought of Christina Noudga, called courthouse for latest: Her 3-week trial set to begin Nov 22

 

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Ann Brocklehurst ‏@AnnB03 [video=twitter;775418065228029952]https://twitter.com/AnnB03/status/775418065228029952[/video]
Mark Smich, Dellen Millard, Matthew Ward-Jackson all have brief appearances at 361 University Ave Wednesday a.m. May get trial date updates

 

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MANDEL: Murder victim's mom says 'our torture continues' as Millard and Smich sentences to be reduced

Found guilty first of murdering Ancaster dad Tim Bosma, then Babcock and finally his own father Wayne, Millard was sentenced in 2018 to the longest known term in Ontario history — a life sentence with no eligibility for parole for 75 years.
Convicted of killing Bosma and Babcock, his former best friend and partner in crime was sent away for life with no parole eligibility for 50 years.

But thanks to a controversial ruling by the Supreme Court last May striking down consecutive periods of parole ineligibility as “cruel and unusual punishment,” these heartless killers will no longer have to appeal their sentences.

Their terms will invariably be reduced to what they would have received if they’d murdered just one person — life with the ability to apply for parole in 25 years.

Millard and Smich have been in custody since their arrests in May 2013, so the pair have 15 years to go before they can make their first attempt.

 

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