Trial and Error
Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive
Toronto Star
4.6 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A trial scheduled for one month becomes two. The Judge is not pleased. It's now down to 12 jurors to determine Chris and Awet's fate – but the lone Black juror gets sick so now it's 11. Among the evidence the jury hears: false DNA evidence that's not corrected; a transcription of Chris's own words that is incorrect and not corrected; and the recollections of two police officers whose notes are strikingly similar. And then the jury comes in. At the end of the day, Chris knows that if he had stepped up and said he was involved in the shooting he'd have gotten a deal and would be out of prison by now. But there's a reason he will never do that.
Audio: CPAC, Ontario Jury Video, EatonCentreShooting, Global TV, Essex County News
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| 0:00.0 | I'm parked at 62 Silverstone Drive. |
| 0:05.0 | It's just around the corner from where the shooting happened in August of 2009. |
| 0:12.0 | And I've come here today on a beautiful sunny day, not unlike the day when the shooting happened, |
| 0:18.0 | to have another look at the crime scene. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm parked at number 62 Silverstone and I've got a clear view of Mount Olive Drive in front of me. |
| 0:29.3 | There's a school to my right. There are houses to my left. And this is the spot, number 62, where Chris Sheriff parked his car that day. |
| 0:44.1 | Owett says that Chris parked here and the Phantom Gunman runs back and gets into the car. |
| 0:52.1 | My purpose for being here today is to see what Chris Sheriff would have seen. |
| 0:58.0 | So he parks here in his car, in his Mazda, and looking to the left, I can see a row of townhouses. |
| 1:06.0 | They're all at the municipal address of 23 Mount Hall of Drive. |
| 1:11.6 | The first one that I have a really good look at and can see from my vantage point is unit number 159. |
| 1:22.6 | The unit that was Marjorie Boland. Marjorie Boland is a one who makes the 911 coal that brings police rushing to the scene. |
| 1:30.3 | Can you tell me the police phone number? |
| 1:33.3 | A gentleman just went by here. My heart's beaten so bad. |
| 1:37.3 | He had a gun in his hand and there were shots. |
| 1:40.3 | I can see its gate. |
| 1:43.3 | I can see the front. I can see the front door. And looking to the left is 157. I can see the gate of 157. I can certainly make it out. But going further left, I can't see 155. |
| 2:02.3 | I can't see it at all. |
| 2:03.9 | And that's the place where the shooting happened. |
| 2:07.3 | 155 is obscured by a brown bungalow on the corner of the streets I'm at. |
| 2:14.9 | It's also obscured by a big tree. |
| 2:23.0 | And if something took place out front of that gate right now, |
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