Set free, now wantedSought in shooting after judge tossed old charges |
A man facing nine criminal charges who was set free by a judge last year because he waited too long for a bail hearing is now the subject of a nationwide manhunt for attempted murder.
The case of Davood Zarinchang, 25, of Markham, was well celebrated in the media in October 2007 when Superior Court Judge Howard Chisvin stayed all charges, including four counts of assault, three of threatening and one of mischief over $5,000.
Zarinchang walked out of court a free man because the court ruled his Charter of Rights and Freedoms were violated when he was jailed for 24 days last April without the benefit of a bail hearing.
"Individuals have been allowed to languish in custody awaiting show cause hearings," Chisvin told the court, adding, "It's simply unacceptable that an individual is held in custody and wants to proceed with his show-cause hearing and is unable to do so because of lack of space."
But just 13 weeks after the charges were stayed because of the technicality, Zarinchang is alleged to have shot a man several times in a "violent home invasion" in Richmond Hill and is still on the lam and considered armed and dangerous.
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