An Ontario judge has dismissed the trial of a woman who died after security guards restrained her for not wearing a mask during the COVID pandemic.
Security footage that will no longer be seen by a jury shows Danielle Stephanie Warriner wearing a medical gown sitting alone at the Toronto General Hospital in May 2020.
The guards, Amanda Rojas-Silva, 42, and Shane Hutley, 35, had been charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence in Warriner’s death, charges they denied, claiming they used the necessary amount of force to hold her.
The judge struck the case from the docket in Nov. 2022, claiming there wasn’t enough evidence to bring it to trial.
