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Jamie Smith, tbnewswatch.com
Clay Powell speaks to media Friday morning.
Toni Grann told a courtroom Friday that if any of her superiors had questioned her work, she would have co-operated.
The 45-year-old faces four charges of falsifying records between 2005 and 2010 when she was local registrar of the Ontario Sex Offender Registry. During questions from her lawyer, Clay Powell, Grann said she didn’t know she was being investigated until she was charged.
If someone had told her, Grann said she would have co-operated with the investigation.
“Until I got charged, yes I would have,” she said.
The court heard that Grann was falling behind on her work and that fellow officer Jim Mauro had offered to help.
He requested to help her in writing, but Grann said no one responded to that request.
After brief questioning, court was adjourned until Feb. 24 when final submissions will be made.
Outside of court Friday morning, Powell said the trial has gone as he expected and that cases like Grann’s are difficult.
“It’s been a thorny issue since the 1700s the crime of breach of trust,” he said.
On Thursday, Crown attorney Mark Huneault’s questioning led Grann to admit that some of her record keeping appeared deceitful. But she insisted that dishonesty was never her intent.
While Powell said he’ll save his submissions for court, and said he took issue with the fact that Grann was being deceitful.
“If you ask me how old I was and I said 70, and in fact I’m 75, which I am, have I deceived you?” he asked. “Or have I misspoken?”
He added that Grann has had a fair trial.
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