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On Oct 14 2004 Theresa McEvoy was killed by a young offender in a car crash. The young offender had been unintentionally released from custody two days previously and a public inquiry under Mr Justice Merlin Nunn, a retired Justice of the NS Supreme Court, was commissioned by Order in Council on June 29, 2005. In January of 2006 public sessions of the Commission opened and testimony was heard from 47 witnesses, including members of the McEvoy family, the Halifax Regional Police, the Attorney General of Nova Scotia, the RCMP, two individual Crown attorneys, the Nova Scotia branch of the Canadian Bar Association, the Halifax Regional School Board, and the young person charged in the incident. The commission examined what exactly had happened, the procedures and policies followed, the actions of law enforcement and justice officials, and why the young person was released from custody. In December of 2006 the Commission issued its report titled: Spiraling out of control: Lessons learned from a boy in trouble. The report included 34 recommendations in three core areas: youth justice administration and accountability; youth crime legislation; and prevention of youth crime in the province.
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2016-03-31
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Taken largely from the fonds itself and media backgrounder issued at the time of the report and recorded on the Legislative Library website.