UPDATE: Charges DROPPED against Canadian Polygamists

Read the RULING posted on Brooke Adams' Salt Lake Tribune Plural Life blog, and here's the article about it at the Salt Lake Tribune.

Robert Matas is reporting for the Globe and Mail that the polygamy charges against Winston Blackmore and Jimmy Oler have been dropped. The decision came down today:

"B.C. Supreme Court Judge Sunni Stromberg-Stein decided that former attorney-general Wally Oppal did not have the authority to have lawyer Terry Robertson appointed as a special prosecutor after a previous special prosecutor had refused to prosecute the two men.

Mr. Robertson's appointment was contrary to the law and Mr. Robertson's decision to proceed with the prosecution “was therefore unlawful,” the judge wrote in a 34-page decision released today."

Amen and Amen!!!

My love and best wishes go the families of these men.

I have met both Winston and Jimmy, but have not had the pleasure of meeting any of Jimmy's family. Several years ago, my colleagues and I visited B.C. and spent time with some of Winston's wives personally; they opened their homes to us and showed us around Bountiful (very beautiful and alight with color). I know them to be genuinely warm, kind, intelligent, compassionate women.