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Timothy Clarke (T.C.) Anthony spent two years in jail awaiting trial for a fatal hit-and-run that shocked an Ontario community.

It took a Cayuga jury two hours to find him not guilty. “I was shaking up there when they were reading the verdict,” the 37-year-old told the Star in a recent interview. “I wasn’t sure what they were going to think.



I’m an Indigenous man in a white court.” In April 2021, 23-year-old Alexander Dalton was hit from behind by a speeding Chevrolet Tahoe in Hagersville. Dalton was thrown from his motorcycle into the path of an oncoming vehicle and died of his injuries.

The Tahoe fled the scene. At first, police investigated a different man as the likely driver. The SUV was owned by Dakota Davis’s common-law partner, but in a police interview, Davis referred to it as “my truck.

” His phone was found inside, on the driver’s side. Still, Davis told police he didn’t know who was driving, and then denied it was him. It was only when the investigator asked if another man had been behind the wheel that Davis stopped being the prime suspect.

“So, was T.C. driving?” OPP officer Todd Amlin asked, according to a transcript of the interview.

“If he was, tell me, that’s perfect, then we got a whole different route to take here.” For T.C.

Anthony’s Toronto-based lawyer, Tonya Kent, it’s another example of a prosecution that should never have happened, coming at a time when advocates are calling on Crown attorneys to completely rethink .

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