On October 1st, an Ontario Superior court judge acquitted four doctors, including the former national medical director of the Canadian Red Cross, of criminal charges in the tainted-blood scandal. Defense lawyer Eddie Greenspan had praise for the judge outside the courthouse in Toronto. (The four were cleared of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and causing a common nuisance endangering the public. The charges were for allegedly giving hemophilia patients an HIV-infected blood-clotting product in the 1980s and early 1990s.)

Date: 2007-10-01
Placeline: TORONTO, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 26 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << how the trial judge was a remarkable judge she listened carefully to every piece of evidence that came out in this trial and at the end of the day made it very clear the doctor Pro did absolutely nothing wrong and that there was absolutely no evidence against him we could not have hoped for a clear indication we could have a lot of hope for a better result >>

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