YouTube Video Entered as Evidence in B.C. Trial

By: Omar Ha-Redeye · January 13, 2009 · Filed Under Criminal Law, Evidence, Technology · 1 Comment 

The B.C. Supreme Court entered a YouTube video of a Victoria man yesterday, the first time the Crown has done so in that province.

AR-15 Makes Swiss Cheese Out of a Couch,” now removed from the site, was used as evidence against Brian Lynn Morrison for a number of charges, including the use of a prohibited weapon in a careless manner and without a licence or registration certificate.

The video allegedly shows Morrison demonstrating the weapon and explaining the silencer, saying,

It’s so powerful it goes right through everything.

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