法官推翻了对不列颠哥伦比亚省一名妇女的定罪。 Judge overturns convictions of a British Columbia woman.

不列颠哥伦比亚省最高法院法官推翻了对金伯利·伍尔曼 (Kimberly Woolman) 的定罪，她被指控在 COVID-19 大流行的早期阶段故意向一名杂货店工作人员咳嗽。 A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has overturned the convictions of Kimberly Woolman, a woman accused of deliberately coughing towards a grocery store worker during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. 伍尔曼于 2020 年 4 月被判犯有袭击和骚乱罪。 Woolman had been convicted of assault and causing a disturbance in April 2020. 法官裁定，伍尔曼应该被允许在审判中传唤一名品格证人，而且由于她已经服完 18 个月缓刑令的大约三分之一，法官利用自己的自由裁量权驳回了定罪，而不是下令重审。 The judge ruled that Woolman should have been allowed to call a character witness in her trial, and since she has already served about a third of her 18-month probation order, the judge used his discretion to dismiss the convictions instead of ordering a retrial.