City Blames Pedestrian After Cop Fatally Runs Him Over In Crosswalk WARNING GRAPHIC VIDEO

City Blames Pedestrian After Cop Fatally Runs Him Over In Crosswalk by Christopher Robbins in News on Mar 22, 2016 3:43 pm

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Felix Coss was struck and killed by an NYPD officer driving a marked police van as he crossed the street in Williamsburg in July of 2013. Coss, a 61-year-old Spanish teacher, had the right of way when he was killed. The officer who struck him, Paula Medrano, was never charged, despite a witness’s statement that she was on her cell phone when she failed to yield to Coss in the crosswalk. Coss’s family sued the city and Madrano, but the Law Department argues that Coss should have known better than to cross the"The Judges of the
Courts of Quebec shall be selected from the Bar of that Province". As a member of the Federal Court of Appeal just prior to his appointment on Friday, Mainville J.A. is not currently a member of the Quebec bar.

These arguments are, at first glance, weaker than those advanced in the Nadon Reference. A Quebec Court of Appeal judge certainly satisfies the letter of the Supreme Court Act. And s. 98 might be construed as including 'former' members of the bar. Certainly, s. 3 of the Judges Act takes that view, permitting the appointment of lawyers with 10 years' service in the past and of current judges(the evolution of this provision was discussed by one of the interveners in the Nadon Reference). Mainville J.A. was long