Edmonton police publicly challenge Crown prosecutors, demand manslaughter plea deal is scrapped

Edmonton police are publicly calling out Alberta Crown prosecutors and demanding a possible plea deal be scrapped in a move criminal trial lawyers liken to extortion.

Police, in a letter provided to media Tuesday, express “shock and horror” in learning the Crown agreed to accept a guilty plea for manslaughter from a woman charged with first-degree murder in the blunt-trauma death of an eight-year-old girl.