Huawei CFO defense exposes cracks in case where only 1% succeed - SFGate: When Huawei Technologies Co.'s chief financial officer first argued that Canada had trampled her constitutional rights during her December arrest, it rang a little hollow.
Meng Wanzhou wasn't a Canadian citizen. She'd been detained for three hours at Vancouver's airport. She'd been released on bail to live in one of her two multimillion-dollar homes in the Pacific Coast city. On the face of it, it didn't appear a roughshod abuse of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms capable of derailing a U.S. extradition request.
Yet over a two-week stretch of hearings ending Thursday, her phalanx of lawyers have exposed cracks in the way Canada handled her arrest -- including an admission from border officials that "in error" they shared her device passwords with police -- putting the prosecution on the back foot.
"Meng was tricked," Scott Fenton, one of her lawyers, told the court, laying out how the Canada Border Services Agency, police and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation unlawfully used the pretext of an immigration check to get Meng to disclose evidence that could be used against her.
According to defense testimony, Meng's warrant called for her "immediate" arrest, yet b
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