More
than 12 thousand pages of evidence from 80 plus witnesses and over 100
recommendations. That's what jurors at the Ashley Smith inquest in
Toronto will face going over after they receive final instructions today
and then begin their deliberations.
The inquest into Smith’s choking death in a prison segregation cell in 2007 began last January.
The
jurors did receive conflicting advice on the question whether the
19-year-old Smith from Moncton meant to kill herself or died because the
guards, under orders against intervening too quickly, waited too long
to save her.