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Fear of terrorism could taint looming Supreme Court case, lawyer says

The charges against 17 terrorist suspects in Ontario threaten to cast a pall over a landmark Supreme Court of Canada hearing next week, says a leading immigration lawyer.
Barbara Jackman says she's worried the climate of public apprehension could affect the high court as it considers a challenge to the security certificate system - a key legal tool used by the government to detain and evict some terrorist suspects from Canada.
"Judges are human beings, the same way anyone else is; obviously they read the news," Jackman said Tuesday.
"Of course it's going to impact in some way . . . . Any time there is an attempt to create a public hysteria on the part of the government, yeah, it does make (my) job harder."
Jackman represents Syrian-born Hassan Almrei, one of three men challenging the security certificate regime. The others are Algerian native Mohamed Harkat of Ottawa and Adil Charkaoui who came to Montreal from Morocco...
Paul Copeland, the lawyer for Harkat, wouldn't go as far as Jackman, but he did express unease about the timing of the charges against the 17 people alleged to have plotted terrorist attacks.
Copeland said he has no inside information and can't prove the announcement of the arrests last Friday had anything to do with the pending Supreme Court case...
"It certainly appears to me that there has been a whole effort by CSIS and the RCMP to do some media work to improve their reputation."

Mind you, they're innocent until proven guilty.