Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Calvin Barry, Criminal Lawyer

Conrad Black's son to plead not guilty
By Michele Mandel ,Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 01:52 PM EDT

From left to right: Jonathan Black, defence attorney Calvin Barry, a court clerk and Judge Judge Faith Finnestad in this July 28 court sketch. (PAM DAVIES/Toronto Sun)

Conrad Black’s son will plead not guilty when he goes to trial in December on charges of criminal harassment and threatening bodily harm after an ex-girlfriend complained to police.

Jonathan Black, 33, was not in Old City Hall Tuesday morning when a judge was told that a scheduled June trial date had been postponed in hopes of reaching a “resolution” with the bond trader but now a trial will proceed on Dec. 15.

“He’s fine, he’s a professional and he’s pleading not guilty,” his lawyer, Calvin Barry, said outside the court.

Black was charged in December 2010 after his former girlfriend told Toronto Police that he would not leave her alone after the end of their one-year “tumultuous” relationship, calling and messaging her repeatedly and once leaving her as many as 60 text messages.

Black was released on bail on condition he not contact her again. Instead, police allege he resumed calling and texting, often to label her new boyfriend a “loser.”

He was charged again in March.

Black goes on trial Dec. 15 for the first set of charges and Jan. 17, 2012, for the second.

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