Toronto driver wins red light ticket appeal nearly two decades later

“More concerning, the Justice of the Peace states, without any reasoning, that the officer’s evidence was accepted and the appellant was convicted. The Justice of the Peace did not address or analyze the appellant’s testimony at all, even though it could raise a reasonable doubt on an essential element of the offence: whether the appellant proceeded into the intersection when the light was red. Nor did the Justice of the Peace explain why the officer’s testimony was accepted and the appellant’s rejected, or why the appellant’s testimony was not at least capable of raising a reasonable doubt.”