TORONTO - Legals experts say they are alarmed by the publication ban that kept the guilty verdict in the Tori Stafford murder under wraps for months.
But the lawyers are quick to say they don't think the publication ban will set a precedent for future trials.
The ban was handed down in a Woodstock, Ontario court in April after Terri-Lynne McClintic pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.
She was sentenced to life in prison in the death of the eight-year-old Woodstock girl.
The lawyer for McClintic's co-accused, Michael Rafferty, wanted to keep the ban in place, saying it would preserve his client's right to a fair trial.
Lawyers fought the publication ban all the way to the Supreme Court, which yesterday declined to hear an appeal in the case.
The highest court's decision allowed the details of the shocking crime to be finally released.
