Peter Demeter [SEP] convicted of
Peter Demeter
Peter Demeter (born 19 April 1933) is a Hungarian-born Canadian former real estate developer convicted in 1974 of arranging the murder of his wife. It was the longest trial in Canadian history and revealed that both husband and wife may have been plotting to murder the other to collect a $1 million insurance policy. The assailant was never found.
While serving his sentence and living in a convicts' halfway house, in 1983 Demeter was charged on two counts with trying to arrange the kidnapping and murder
convicted)
- Peter Demeter, at whose trial Greenspan made his name as junior counsel (convicted)
- Garth Drabinsky, Toronto impresario (client was convicted)
- Marc Stuart Dreier, prominent New York lawyer charged with hedge-funds related fraud in Canada (client went to U.S. voluntarily and was tried there with U.S. counsel)
- Gerard Filion, past editor of "Le Devoir" and Chairman of the Board of Marine Industries, charged with bid rigging (acquitted)
- Robert Latimer, Saskatchewan farmer