Pubdate: Sat, 25 Apr 2015
Source: Windsor Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2015 The Windsor Star
Contact:  http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/501
Author: Sarah Sacheli
Page: A2

COURT DISMISSES APPEAL BY DECEITFUL DRUG COPS

Five former Toronto police drug squad officers - including one who 
has started a new life in the Windsor area - have had their appeal 
dismissed by the province's highest court.

Ned Maodus and former fellow officers John Schertzer, Steven Correia, 
Joseph Miched and Raymond Pollard were convicted in 2012 of 
attempting to obstruct justice. Maodus, who moved back to Essex 
County, Correia and Pollard were additionally convicted of perjury.

The five appealed their convictions. The Ontario Court of Appeal this 
week dismissed their case. The case involved an illegal search of a 
drug dealer's apartment back in 1998. A jury found the officers 
falsified their notes and lied on the witness stand to hide the fact 
they had gone into the apartment without a search warrant.

The men were sentenced in 2013 to 45 days on house arrest. The 
sentence was an anti-climatic end to a 15-year odyssey that began 
with accusations of conspiracy, extortion, theft and assault. The 
case included one stay of prosecution because of the amount of time 
it took to bring the officers to trial. The province appealed the 
stay and won a new trial, which lasted six months in 2012.

While the former officers appealed their convictions, the Crown 
appealed the 45-day sentence they were handed. The appeal court 
agreed the short sentence was "demonstrably unfit," and substituted a 
three-year jail sentence. But the longer sentence will be on paper 
only. The court said, because of the passage of time, the 
three-year-sentence is stayed.

Maodus's lawyer, Patrick Ducharme, declined comment.

Maodus, whom court has heard suffers from post-traumatic stress 
disorder from his career in policing, has a prior criminal record. 
After moving back to the Windsor area, Maodus was convicted in 2012 
of uttering a death threat against his former wife. He was handed a 
suspended sentence. In 2007, he was sentenced to a year on house 
arrest for an incident in Orangeville which saw him convicted of 
assault causing bodily harm, uttering threats and pointing a firearm.
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