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Police officers across Canada
A growing number of Canadian police officers are facing charges of perjury - the serious and usually rare crime of giving false testimony.
At least eight officers, either active or recently retired, will heading be to courts in Toronto, Winnipeg and Regina over the next two months accused of an offence that carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison.
"I have not seen this many examples of perjury charges brought against police officers," says James Morton, a Toronto lawyer and adjunct professor at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School.
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Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada
11 January 2008
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Cop guilty in sex sting
A Windsor native who is a former member of a Toronto police drug squad accused of corruption has been convicted of trying to solicit a prostitute who was actually an undercover officer.
The incident happened late one evening during the first week of his preliminary hearing on corruption charges.
Const. Ned Maodus, 44, is one of six former drug squad members who are scheduled to go on trial in Ontario Superior Court next month, more than four years after they were charged following the longest police corruption probe in Canadian history.
Provincial court Judge Peter Bourque also convicted Maodus on Wednesday of failing to comply with his bail conditions as a result of the Jan. 11, 2006, incident.
Maodus remains free on bail and is serving a two-year conditional sentence after pleading guilty in August 2007 to unrelated charges of assault causing bodily harm, threatening and pointing a firearm at a woman near Orangeville.
The veteran officer has been required to live with his family in Windsor since 2002 under his bail conditions.
At his trial last fall on the soliciting charges, the undercover officer testified that she was part of a sting operation in a downtown Toronto area known for street prostitution, when Maodus called out "Hey beautiful," to her from his car.
When she asked what he wanted, Maodus replied: "From you, everything," the officer testified. The court heard that he asked her to get into his vehicle because he saw a champagne coloured Ford Crown Victoria and believed it might be an unmarked police car.
Maodus was staying in an upscale hotel during the preliminary hearing and testified that he was on his way to visit his Toronto lawyer Peter Brauti when he was arrested shortly after 11 p.m.
Brauti was in his office at the time of the arrest, although Maodus was driving in the opposite direction when stopped.
Windsor lawyer Patrick Ducharme, who represents Maodus on the soliciting and corruption charges, said he was "disappointed" with the conviction.
Ducharme argued there were inconsistencies in the undercover officer's testimony.
A conviction for trying to solicit the services of a prostitute would normally result in probation, a fine or a very short jail sentence.
Maodus could face time in jail because he is already serving a conditional sentence for another criminal conviction.
Crown attorney Toni Skarica said Thursday that he has not decided on what sentence he will ask for and wants to wait for a report from Maodus's probation officer.
The sentencing hearing is unlikely to take place until March.
Maodus remains a Toronto police officer, but has been suspended without pay.
The six drug squad officers were charged in January 2004, after a more than two-year-long RCMP-led investigation into allegations that police officers were assaulting and stealing from drug dealers from 1997 to 2002. Federal prosecutors in the Toronto area ultimately stayed charges in nearly 200 drug cases as a result of the allegations.
Jury selection in the trial is scheduled to begin in mid-February.
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