Quebec Judge Denies Bid by Billionaire Robert Miller for Stay in Sex Crimes Trial

Published on June 21, 2024

A Quebec Superior Court judge has declined to hear a Quebec billionaire businessman’s application for a stay of proceedings after his lawyers argued he was too sick to appear in court next month. Robert Miller, founder of global electronics distributor Future Electronics, was arrested in May on 21 sex charges involving 10 complainants, many of whom were minors when the alleged offences occurred between 1994 and 2016. One of the alleged victims was under the age of 14. Mr. Miller’s lawyers had argued that the 80-year-old Mr. Miller is unable to participate in the trial because his health has deteriorated from the effects of Parkinson’s disease. They said the illness has left Mr. Miller in “an extremely frail condition,” bedridden since 2022 and unable to bathe or feed himself....

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