Closing arguments today on Greg Dalley murder trial

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Closing arguments began today in the case of a man on trial for killing a toddler. The trial of 28 year old Greg Dalley is rapidly drawing to a close tonight. Final arguments have concluded, and the judge has begun his formal charge to the jury. It was an interesting day in the courtroom as the two opposing lawyers made their final pitch to the jury

In wrapping up her case against the accused crown attorney Cheryl Gzik was forceful, and direct: “put the blame where it belongs.” she said “put the blame on Greg Dalley. Find him guilty as charged.”

But in his final argument to the jury defence attorney Greg Leslie may have made it difficult for the jury to do just that. “The crown has a problem. A major problem. The crown hasn’t shown any evidence; not one single piece of evidence that proves that Greg Dalley is the one who harmed Noah.”

Leslie then went on to systematically pick the crown’s case apart, witness by witness. He pointed to testimony from Noah’s mother Nicole Agnew, who testified: “I know that Greg loved Noah.” And went on to point out that not a single witness ever testified to seeing Dalley mistreat Noah in any way, not even LaSaundra Grey nor Ashlynn Kushuba who were in the apartment with Dalley on the night that Noah died.

He told the jury: there was no debate that the blood found on Dalley’s shirt and shoe was Noah’s but there were 3 people in the apartment at the time, and the crown cannot say whether there was also blood on the clothing of Ashlynn Kushuba, or LaSaundra Grey, because they never looked. Never seized clothing from either woman. Never took DNA samples, from either one.

Leslie also pointed to items that the crown left out of its case, items that might raise troubling questions. For example: 5 days after the police searched Agnew’s apartment thoroughly a blood-stained shirt turns up in Noah’s toy box. It’s a shirt that no one can explain. neither the crown, nor the defence, no one knows where it came from or how. Leslie reminded the jury that the lock to Agnew’s front door was broken, and had never worked.

And finally a text message that the crown never covered in its prosecution, from Ashlynn Kushuba to LaSaundra Grey on the day after Noah’s death, “still I’m worried… I can’t sleep … the forensic units been in ur apt all day. They just came back they r guna find out what happened.