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'Mr Big'
confession only part of conviction of Rafay, Burns
Rubin (Hurricane) Carter
is blowing hot air when he says convicted triple murderers Atif
Rafay and Sebastian Burns are innocent. He is leading a media
campaign to win these two young men a new trial because he believes
they were wrongly convicted as a result of a controversial RCMP
sting known as "the Mr. Big scenario." (Vancouver Sun)
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Filmmaker explores
issue of coerced confessions
More than a decade after her brother told
undercover RCMP officers he bludgeoned a family to death, Tiffany Burns
believes he was coerced into giving a false confession. In
her documentary "Mr.
Big," due out this
fall, the filmmaker says Sebastian Burns was one of many victims of a
police technique that other countries, such as the United States and
England, consider unlawful. (CTV) MORE:
RCMP's 'Mr. Big' stings challenged
Meet Mr. Big
The Mr. Big sting, part 2
Maybe it's time to take a close look at 'Mr.
Big'
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Suspension
suggested for former public defender
A
disciplinary hearing examiner ruled yesterday that the law license of
a former public defender accused of having jailhouse sex with one of
her clients should be suspended for two years.
(Seattle Times - Sept. 29, 2004) PREVIOUS: Two
guards testify they saw Olson, client having sex Ex-public
defender denies jailhouse sex with client
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Lawyer
accused of sex with client suspended for two years
OLYMPIA
- The state Supreme Court has ordered former public defender Theresa
Olson suspended from practicing law for two years for engaging in
conduct with a murder defendant client that the Washington State Bar
Association disciplinary board found to be sexual in nature.
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
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Man
denies killing Rafays SEATTLE
- Sebastian
Burns told the jurors who will decide his fate that he had nothing to
do with the brutal slaying of his best friend's family in Bellevue 10
years ago -- but that he pretended he did because he was scared he
would end up dead himself.
(Seattle Post-Intelligencer - May 12, 2004)
PREVIOUS: Rafay
and Burns trial begins 9 years after slayings |
Rafay,
Burns are convicted of murder
SEATTLE
- A King County Superior Court jury on Wednesday found Glen Sebastian
Burns and Atif Rafay guilty of killing Rafay's parents and sister in
suburban Bellevue in 1994. (AP) May 27, 2004
RELATED:
Covert
RCMP tactics under fire in Australia
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Written
in Blood
BELLEVUE
- What
happened to the Rafay family one summer night in 1994 brought tragedy
and mystery to a quiet neighborhood in Bellevue, Wash.
(48 Hours)
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Seattle
Times: Timeline How triple-homicide case became an international
incident
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Sept.
30, 2003 Mertel rejects defense motion to suppress evidence gathered by Canadian
officials.
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April 22, 2003
Pretrial
hearings begin into the admissibility of evidence collected by
Canadian police.
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Aug.
14, 2002 Judge Mertel dismisses Olson from the case and on Aug. 20th
orders new attorneys be appointed for Burns.
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Aug. 10, 2002
Guards
report seeing public defender Theresa Olson having sex with Burns in
jail conference room. Sex
contact with client could cost lawyer
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April
8, 2002 Superior Court Judge Charles Mertel dismisses Rafay's public defenders,
Gary Davis and Jim Koenig; moves trial date from May 2002 to March
2003.
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April
6, 2001 Defendants plead not guilty
to three counts of aggravated first-degree murder.
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March
9, 2001 King County Prosecutor
Norm Maleng announces he won't seek the death penalty.
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Feb.
15, 2001 Supreme Court of Canada unanimously rules that Rafay and Burns can't be
extradited to the United States without a guarantee they won't be
executed.
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June
29, 1997 The Court of Appeal rules it
is unconstitutional to surrender a Canadian citizen to stand trial in
another country where he could face the death penalty.
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Feb.
2, 1996 B.C. judge rules there's
sufficient evidence to extradite Burns and Rafay. Defense attorneys
later petition B.C.'s Court of Appeal, seeking judicial review.
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July 31, 1995
Rafay and Burns are arrested and charged in King County with
three counts of aggravated first-degree murder.
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1995
RCMP undercover
officers monitor the men's conversations by planting bugs and got the
pair to talk about the slayings - while being secretly videotaped.
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July 14, 1994
Deaths ruled homicides. Rafays were bludgeoned to death.
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July
13, 1994 Bellevue, Wash. Tariq
and Sultana Rafay are found dead; Basma Rafay, is critically injured
and dies later that morning.
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 Tariq Rafay
 Sultana Raay
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Basma Rafay
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