It also was revealing about Coleman, in that it was but one way she has appeared to attempt to wrest control of the proceeding
OTTAWA — Caitlan Coleman Tuesday rebuked the defence lawyer questioning her and suggested it was reminiscent of how her allegedly abusive husband Joshua Boyle acted.
He has been consistently mild and low key, though the questions he’s asked have been necessarily pointed and about difficult subjects. Coleman is the alleged victim in most of the charges; a second victim cannot be identified by court order. At one point, just before her rebuke, Greenspon asked if he called the transcriptionist as a witness and she swore under oath that she’d transcribed the interview accurately — and it is filled with “ahs” and “likes” and all the usual human stutterings — would she be satisfied?Greenspon was zeroing in on an assault Coleman described in examination-in-chief as having happened on Nov. 27, 2017.
But in one of several lengthy interviews she had with Ottawa Police, this one on Dec. 31 or about a month after the alleged assault, Coleman cautioned the detective “but memories can be invented or inserted. It was such a common position for us I might be taking it from somewhere else.” Earlier in the day, Coleman acknowledged that Boyle, too, had been violently treated while in captivity, and agreed with Greenspon that “he had learned to mimic” what their captors did to them. In fact, in February of 2018, by which time Boyle was arrested and in custody, Coleman wrote his sister Heather and said, in part, “I am sure your brother has deteriorated like this” because of their captivity. “He had mental health problems but he was not a violent person before captivity.
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