The Crown argued Steven Deans put Nicholas Chenier's life at risk by failing to advise him of potential dangers. The defence said no one could have foreseen what happened.

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A judge must now decide whether an Ottawa man showed a “reckless disregard” for his landscaping employee’s life following the end of closing arguments in his trial. Article content

Court heard the Crown and defence outline two starkly different accounts of what led to the death of 20-year-old Nicholas Chenier, a foreman with the landscaping company Best Green Hedges who was undertaking a hedge-trimming job on a residential property in Manotick on May 5, 2023. Article content Article content

Chenier was electrocuted when the hedge trimmer he was using touched a 16,000-volt power line during t

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