Saskatoon judge to make ruling on evidence in fatal THC-impaired driving case [Video]

A Saskatoon Provincial Court judge will determine whether testimony from a woman, charged with impaired driving causing the death of a child, will be used as evidence in her trial.

Nine-year-old Baeleigh Maurice was on her way to school on Sept. 9, 2021, pushing her scooter at a 33rd Street West crosswalk, when she was struck by Taylor Kennedy’s truck.

Kennedy is charged with impaired driving, exceeding the prescribed blood-drug concentration of THC, causing death.

At the crash scene, Kennedy told officers she smoked weed and micro-dosed magic mushrooms the day before.

On Friday, Kennedy’s lawyer Thomas Hynes argued her admission to drug consumption was a “compelled statement”. He said officers told her she had to “give information to police” before she was read her rights.

“This was the epitome of no free choice,” he said.

Earlier this week Kennedy took the stand in a voir dire, a hearing to …