The Globe and Mail

Madam Justice Sunni Stromberg-Stein found that the former attorney-general of B.C. had unfairly gone “special prosecutor shopping” when he ignored the advice of two prosecutors and kept searching until one was found who wanted to press charges.

By doing so, Judge Stromberg-Stein said, the attorney-general “upset the critical balance that … should be kept between political interference and accountability.”

Source: NYTimes.com

A judge dismissed polygamy charges on Wednesday against two leaders of a fundamentalist Mormon sect based in Bountiful, British Columbia. In January, after an extensive police investigation, Winston K. Blackmore, was charged with being married simultaneously to 19 women and James M. Oler was charged with being married to two women. But Justice Sunni S. Stromberg-Stein of the Supreme Court of British Columbia ruled that the province’s attorney general did not have the authority to appoint a third special prosecutor after two other special prosecutors had recommended not charging the men. Mr. Blackmore’s group is associated with the Yearning For Zion ranch in Eldorado, Tex., where the authorities seized 468 children in a raid in 2008.

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