AUGUST 14, 2026:  If you didn’t see our blog post from the 12th CLICK HERE.

August 12th was supposed to be the first day of a 2 day criminal trial involving the accused Stephanie Redlick and a 79-year old victim, John Dobson.

We were not the least bit surprised that Redlick came up with some kind of an alternative theory – an alibi or a possible other suspect – and that of course resulted in a delay in the criminal proceedings.

Her legal repsentation expected 2 weeks to provide documentation and even the Crown thought that was likely but the judge had other ideas and ruled that Redlick’s lawyer must provide documentation by this morning, August 14th.  Barely 2 days, not 2 weeks.

It was decided that IF that documentation was in the Crown’s hands by this morning that Redlick and her lawyer could appear virtually.

This morning rolled around and the Crown (the prosecution) informed the court that although he had been watching and checking carefully he had NOT received the promised documentation.  

AND not only had he NOT received the documentation – Redlick’s legal representation was NOT even on the Zoom. 

When Redlick was called – her lawyer was not on the Zoom so she told the judge there would be a recess and that she wasn’t going to accept any arguments about that.  YES, REALLY.

The Crown proceeded to explain that Redlick’s attorney had promised to produce documentation by this morning – before court and that he checked multiple times but there was nothing in his inbox.  

The judge asked if he was correct in remembering that if documentation was not produced that both Redlick and her lawyer were to appear in person.

The Crown carefully worded his response – but to the best of his knowledge that was the agreement.

And then came the part Stephanie Redlick apparently didn’t realize the entire courtroom could hear. Believing she was muted, Redlick began leaving a message for her lawyer – and let’s just say she was not pleased.

She cursed at her lawyer, told her off, and expressed concern that a bench warrant could be issued.

Unfortunately for Redlick, the courtroom was listening.

And yes… those of us on Zoom – and in the court room in person laughed.

Redlick is such a class act.

Some time later Stephanie Redlick’s legal representation did jump on the Zoom – and explained that documentation had been sent – to the wrong email address.

Council confirmed that they were now in receipt of that documentation and a female detective on the case had requested three weeks to investigate further.

Council reminded the judge that he’d volunteered to see this case through and promised that he would forward a synopsis of the case to the judge.

Trial dates are adjourned.  11B was waived.

September 3rd, 2026 – case management day.

All parties can attend virtually on that day.

We will update as we learn more.

Meanwhile, Redlick appeared in the provincial court system yesterday on 13 Animal Welfare Services (AWS) charges involving neglect of 16 horses who were removed by AWS – nothing of any consequence happened – they were to be “judicial pre-trail”, those proceedings were adjourned until September 17th at 3:00 PM.

Every year thousands of horses are routinely slaughtered in Canada, for human consumption, but you can help us ban horse slaughter in Canada and beyond.

Some of the meat is consumed in Canada, and much of it is shipped to the European Union, and other markets, including Japan.

This barbaric practice is currently not legal in the United States, so horses from the United States are shipped to Canada, and to Mexico, to be slaughtered.

In addition Canada allows for the transportation of live horses to Japan to be slaughtered for human consumption, and unfortunately the transportation of horses destined for slaughter within Canada, and by air to Japan for slaughter, is far from humane.

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