Lawyers argue over video evidence at Calgary woman’s trial in baby deaths

CALGARY – The Crown in a double murder trial for a Calgary mother says she was not initially a suspect when police began investigating her.

Jayme (JAY’-me) Williams was responding to defence arguments that Meredith Borowiec’s (BOHR’-oh-wicks) charter rights were violated in a police video interview in 2011.

Williams said police were only looking into two of the woman’s pregnancies when they began interviewing her and didn’t need to caution her that she could face murder charges.

Lawyers are arguing whether the video, in which Borowiec admits to placing her newborns in a trash bin, should be admitted as evidence.

Borowiec is charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of two newborns in 2008 and 2009.

She faces a separate attempted murder trial this fall for a third child, who was rescued from a garbage bin.