Can accused be convicted in Lake Ontario boat crash even if he wasnt behind the wheel? [Video]

Filip Grkovski’s lawyer argues he and his client had the right to know what Crown prosecutors’ theories or routes to conviction were, prior to his client taking the witness box Tuesday.

Alan Gold told Superior Court Justice P. Tamara Sugunasiri that it wasn’t until assistant Crown attorney Jackson Foreman asked Grkovski a series of questions during cross-examination, that led him to believe that the Crown was pursuing a new theory to liability.

Foreman suggested to Grkovski that even if he wasn’t driving his boat on the night of May 31, 2022, when it went crashing into rocks near Outer Harbour Marina, causing the boat to flip over and killing two people, Grkovski could be found guilty.

Grkovski is on trial for criminal negligence and impaired operation causing death after 24-year-old Megan Wu and 34-year-old Julio Abrantes were both trapped in the vessel and drowned.

“I made no objection in order …