Daniel Kennedy (Manitoba judge)

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Daniel P. Kennedy is a judge and former politician in Manitoba, Canada. He has served on the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba since 1984.

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Political candidate

Kennedy ran for the Manitoba Liberal Party in the electoral district of St. Vital in a 1971 by-election and the 1973 general election. In the 1971 by-election, he campaigned against the amalgamation of St. Vital into the new "unicity" of Winnipeg. In 1973, he was supported by many Progressive Conservatives as the candidate most likely to defeat New Democratic Party incumbent Jim Walding. He narrowly lost to Walding on both occasions. Ian Stewart describes Kennedy as having been an "ambitious, articulate, and photogenic young lawyer" in this period. [1]

Judge

Kennedy was appointed as a provincial judge on August 30, 1978, and was promoted to the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba on June 21, 1984. [2]

He presided over the trial of a prominent Hell's Angels member in 1993, and considered the question of whether a Winnipeg Sun reporter had a right to protect a confidential source. He determined that he would not charge the reporter with contempt of court for refusing to divulge the source, and instead asked the provincial Attorney General to review the matter. [3]

In 1992, Kennedy ruled that it was not a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to sentence a defendant to six months in jail for failure to pay parking tickets. This ruling was overturned on appeal. [4] In 1995, he became the first judge in Manitoba to order the repossession of a convict's property under "proceeds of crime" legislation passed six years earlier. [5] The following year, he dismissed two statements a defendant had given to police on the grounds that the statements were made under duress. Partly as a result of this ruling, Winnipeg police began videotaping their talks with suspects the following year. [6]

Kennedy gave a stiff, 13-year sentence to a heroin distributor in 1994, and was quoted as saying, "[m]any of the ills of society, the destruction of our societal fabric, comes because of the illicit use of drugs". [7] In 2003, he gave a 28-month sentence to a man convicted of trafficking ecstasy. [8]

In 1999, Kennedy re-instituted a triple-tax penalty for cigarette smugglers that had been overturned by a lower court. He ruled that this penalty, while severe, did not "shock or outrage standards of decency". [9]

Electoral record

1973 Manitoba general election : St. Vital
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Jim Walding 3,87039.25+3.56
Liberal Dan Kennedy 3,76538.18+9.87
Progressive Conservative John Gee2,22522.57−13.44
Total valid votes9,860100.00
Rejected votes51
Turnout9,91185.84
17.80
Electors on the lists11,546
New Democratic hold Swing -3.15
Manitoba provincial by-election, April 5, 1971: St. Vital
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
New Democratic Jim Walding 3,37835.94+0.25
Liberal Dan Kennedy 3,08332.80+4.49
Progressive Conservative Kenneth Pratt2,92531.12−4.89
Independent Sam Bordman130.14
Total valid votes9,399100
Rejected and declined ballots10
Turnout9,40983.05+15.01
Electors on the lists11,329
New Democratic gain from Progressive Conservative Swing +2.57

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References

  1. ↑ Ian Stewart, Just One Vote: Jim Walding's nomination to constitutional defeat, (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press), 2009, pp. 33, 35. Among his Progressive Conservative supporters in 1973 was Jack Hardy, who served as the area's Member of the Legislative Assembly from 1969 to 1971.
  2. ↑ Judges of Manitoba, Manitoba Historical Society, accessed 21 September 2009.
  3. ↑ Kevin Rollason, "Judge says reporters can protect sources", Winnipeg Free Press, 7 October 1993 [Kennedy later questioned this interpretation of his ruling]; Stevens Wild, "Reporter off the hook, but Sun may face contempt charge", Winnipeg Free Press, 10 December 1993.
  4. ↑ Kevin Rollason, "No jail for parking scofflaws", Winnipeg Free Press.
  5. ↑ David Kuxhaus, "Drug dealer loses his Caddie", Winnipeg Free Press, 3 November 1995, A4.
  6. ↑ Allison Bray, "Police to video talks with suspects", Winnipeg Free Press, 24 August 1997, A4.
  7. ↑ Kevin Rollason, "Heroin plan gets 13 years", Winnipeg Free Press, 23 December 1994.
  8. ↑ Mike McIntyre, "Court upholds sentence for ecstasy dealer", Winnipeg Free Press, 14 April 2004, B1.
  9. ↑ David Kuxhaus, "Judge restores smuggled-smokes penalty", Winnipeg Free Press, 24 July 1999, A7.
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