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B.C. Supreme Court has finished hearing evidence in Smithers, B.C., in an abuse of process application for three people arrested for blocking work on the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

Justice Michael Tammen is hearing the abuse of process application brought by Sleydo’ (Molly Wickham), a wing chief of Cas Yikh, a house group of the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, Shaylynn Sampson, a Gitxsan woman with Wet’suwet’en family ties and Corey Jocko, who is Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) from Akwesasne, which straddles the Quebec, Ontario and New York state borders. 

Tammen found the three guilty in January of criminal contempt of court for breaking an injunction against blocking work on the pipeline.

The abuse of process application alleges RCMP used excessive force while arresting the accused in November 2021 and the group was treated unfairly while in custody. It asks the judge to stay the criminal contempt of court charges or to …

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