Around 6:38 a.m., Warriner is seen sitting in a chair near a pillar in the hospital lobby. A couple of metres in front of her, Rojas-Silva dons personal protective equipment with help from another guard, all the while appearing to speak to Warriner.

You need to take off your speed off before you start to turn. By this I don’t mean you should come to a complete stop, but rather reduce your speed to that which you feel you can smoothly take the corner at. Grip, that thing you don’t want to lose, is a battle between your tyre and the road. Braking hard and turning at the same time make it very difficult for your tyre, so don’t do both at once – brake hard, ease off the brakes, then turn. Leaning your body weight into the turn (more on that next) and heat in your tyres gives you more grip.

At the centre of the bend (the apex), approach either the centreline or the inside edge of the road, depending on which way you are turning. The idea is to make the curve you are taking as big as possible with the road you have. If you are turning left, as in the photo above, make sure you do not cross over the centreline. Bigger curves = less force on the tyres therefore the potential to go faster. On the exit, move back out the outside of the bend.

The next day, Warriner left the COVID floor to get something to eat, according to a coroner's report, and was spotted by hospital staff in the lobby with her mask down around her neck.

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Due to your anticipation of the turn, you’ll be in the right position, braking hard on the drops, with your outside pedal down towards the ground. This is where (just before you get to the turn) you want to be looking where you want to go, ie round the corner, not ahead of you. It can be tempting to look ahead – it’s what you normally do all the time, and there might even be a rather distracting rock wall approaching. Resist the urge however and look round the corner to the opposite side of the road. Lean your body (head, shoulders, and torso) very slightly into the turn, perhaps with your inside knee pointing away and down from your body. A phrase that can help some understand what you need to be achieving is ‘steer with your belly button’. At this point (before you start leaning too much) you should be coming off the brakes.

As you move into the turn, progressively lean further, remembering to keep looking round the bend. Try to keep the turn as one smooth progression into maximum lean, then lifting the bike back up for the exit (don’t make the shape of your turn like a 50p piece!)

That a case where guards facing trial for the death of her loved one could suddenly evaporate is "egregious," said Warriner's sister, Denise.

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As that happens, a second guard, Hutley, walks into view from the right and also begins putting on a gown. One more guard walks into view from the right and also dons PPE.

Now, those charges have been dropped after a judge concluded there wasn't enough evidence to take the case to trial — a decision CBC News has learned the Crown won't appeal.

In a document filed by her lawyer, Rojas-Silva claims she took Warriner to the wall "as a last resort, after extensive efforts to verbally de-escalate an aggressive patient."

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Still, in quashing the case, Superior Court Justice Sean Dunphy noted, "There is evidence that death could have been the culmination of the factors he described."

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"There is a risk of positional restraint asphyxia due to the person's body weight pressing down on their chest and the fact that the patient cannot support herself when her hands are handcuffed behind her back," the Crown noted, citing testimony from the guards' supervisor.

Those scenes are part of the evidence that would have been heard at the trial of the guards charged in Warriner's death at Toronto General Hospital in May 2020.

By this time, Warriner is seen on her feet and appears to briefly raise her right arm before Rojas-Silva takes her to a nearby wall, with Hutley approaching from behind.

Court heard that Rojas-Silva knew Warriner had left the hospital against medical advice before, and repeatedly told her to put on her mask from a distance before approaching her. The defence argued Warriner refused, swore at Rojas-Silva and threatened to have her fired.

At a preliminary hearing, the guard who turned the camera testified he did so because he "panicked" and "got really anxious."

According to UHN policy documents seen at the preliminary hearing, guards can use force only when all other interventions fail. As well, they're required to use only the amount of force necessary to control a situation and only in "extreme emergencies" such as in self-defence, defence of others or under the direction of medical staff.

The very first thing you need to do, is identify that there is a corner approaching! It probably doesn’t really need saying, but you need to be on full alert when descending, and the sooner you can prepare yourself for the upcoming bend, the more time you’ll have to get it right and the more relaxed you’ll be. A good technique you can use to do this, which applies any time you are going fast, not just descents, is to look as far down the road as possible. Look for the point where the road either disappears on the horizon (no corners coming soon), or round a corner. Let your peripheral vision take care of any minor issues closer by. The good thing about hairpins is that due to both their sharpness, and by coming into them downhill, means that they are fairly easy to spot (fast sweeping bends can be trickier to read).

As they grappled on the ground, two witnesses testified Warriner was flailing her arms and legs, shouting as the two guards, Rojas-Silva and Hutley, took control of her limbs. A third guard applied handcuffs.

It's a fight she says has consumed her, but one she feels compelled to continue not only for her sister, but for others who are marginalized and vulnerable as well.  All the while, she says, the memories of her sister with her family at the dinner table are interrupted by those of her final conscious moments with the guards alone.

"But for her interaction with the Applicants, Ms. Warriner would likely be alive today," the forensic pathologist testified at the preliminary hearing, according to the Crown.

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"She was a very tiny woman who was clearly unwell, sitting, dealing with respiratory distress and they wrangled her to her death. There was no lawful reason for them to have ever put hands on her," she said she believes.

Amanda Rojas-Silva, 42, and Shane Hutley, 35, had been charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence in Warriner's death — charges they denied, saying they used only the force necessary to gain a hold of her.

Now, that won't happen. In a surprise move by an Ontario judge on Nov. 22, the case against the guards has been quashed and the trial that was supposed to begin this May struck from the docket.

Asked about that decision, and whether Rojas-Silva and Hutley would be also be allowed to keep their jobs with the charges against them now dropped, University Health Network spokesperson Gillian Howard told CBC News, "UHN will not comment on a court's decision, nor do we comment on individual hiring decisions, or employee discipline."

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At this point you also want to make sure that your outside pedal is down towards to ground, and your hands are on the drops (not the hoods). This hand position gives you a) more braking power due to better leverage, and b) a slightly lower centre of gravity for better stability in the turn. If you are uncomfortable braking on your drops, you should get your handlebars and brake lever position checked out and potentially adjusted.

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Danielle Stephanie Warriner sits alone in a Toronto hospital lobby, wearing little more than a pale blue medical gown. Moments later, she's wheeled away by guards, her slight frame slumped in a wheelchair, her legs dangling from the edge.

Of course, being relaxed when you are feeling apprehensive is not the easiest thing to do. So it’s important to take things at your own pace, and progressively push little by little – don’t worry about what anyone else is doing. You will have plenty of opportunity to practice on those long descents, and a steady but sure build up will work wonders to increase your confidence. The mountains are waiting for you!

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"Mr. Hutley went as far as to claim that Ms. Warriner delivered several overhand and underhand punches to Ms. Rojas-Silva's face and was kicking her feet," says a court document by the Crown.

"Decisions by the Crown to appeal are made in accordance with the Crown Prosecution Manual," said ministry spokesperson Maher Abdurahman. "After carefully considering the matter in accordance with this policy, the Crown decided not to appeal. The ministry has no further comment."

This is where it’s important to get in your ‘corner approach’ position early. If there is only one thing you remember about braking when that hairpin is getting closer, with more speed than you expected, it’s this: Only brake hard in a straight line!

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But as for whether the guards used more force than necessary to gain a hold of Warriner, the judge concluded on Nov. 22 "there is no evidence that either accused applied any weight to the upper body … beyond that associated with gaining control of and holding her hands or arms while handcuffs were being applied."

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On May 10, Warriner, who suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD, arrived in hospital with a cough and short of breath. It was early in the COVID-19 pandemic, and Warriner was presumptively treated as COVID-positive, though it was later found she tested negative for the virus.

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Court heard it was there that Rojas-Silva noticed something was wrong and started checking for a pulse. The guards removed Warriner's handcuffs as Rojas-Silva called a "Code Blue" and began doing chest compressions.

"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'" the document says.

By about 6:41 a.m., the guards are seen wheeling Warriner down the hall, her body slumped and legs splayed, not moving. They turn left into an elevator bay and disappear from view.

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In a statement to CBC News, the Ministry of the Attorney General confirmed the Crown won't appeal to have the case revived, but wouldn't comment on why.

In the absence of footage from the moments on the ground, two eye witnesses testified the accused held the 125-pound woman down by her upper body despite their training warning of the risks of doing so.

Instead, a security camera was purposely turned away as guards approached the 43-year-old, pushed her against a wall and restrained her on the ground before she lost consciousness — never to regain it.

Until now, much of the evidence in Warriner's death has been covered by a publication ban. With the case quashed, CBC News can now report on the details that have never been made public and reveal the footage a jury will never see.

"My first reaction was shock, horror," Warriner's sister, Denise, told CBC News. "There's been no accountability and there's a gaping hole in my heart."

Your position on the road will depend on which way the upcoming hairpin turns, but either way you need to be on the outside of the corner, as far as safely possible, on the approach (make sure you are not at risk of going down a drain / crossing over the centre line). Being right on the outside of the bend during the approach gives you two benefits:

"It's not common for a judge to screen out a case before it's set for trial," Addario said. "The system is set up so after a preliminary inquiry, the cases are generally set on to trial because the bar to get a case sent on to trial is very low."

Aside from all the technical considerations, positioning, braking etc, how you feel can make a big difference to how you corner. As with most things in life, an alert but relaxed mindset will help you deal with all this information and make the appropriate responses the turn into a smooth, sweeping fast hairpin turn. If you are tense & worried, then the tendency will be to be less fluid, perhaps even resulting in a panic grab of the brakes mid corner. This is perhaps the worst thing you can do as it will a) really test your tyres and increase your chance of skidding (remember braking hard during turning is not a good idea!) and b) actually encourage the bike to come upright and go straight ahead rather than round the corner. If you just try to lean more and trust the tyres then you have a much better chance of getting round. If you find that you really have to brake into the corner, then the best method is to come off the front brake first, and trail a (small amount) of the rear brake. Or if you need to make a small adjustment mid corner, again, go for a small amount of rear brake. If a tyre is going to skid, you have a much better chance of getting away with it if it’s the rear.

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That's despite the available video footage, two security staff who testified the accused placed weight on her upper body while she was held chest down, a forensic pathologist who testified Warriner would still be alive had she not been restrained that day — and revelations one of the guards admitted he falsely claimed Warriner threw the first punch.

In the aftermath of the incident, both guards claimed Warriner repeatedly assaulted Rojas-Silva before she went hands on.

When riding in the mountains, most of your time and energy is spent going uphill. However, as we all know, whatever goes up must come down, and due to all that up, you are likely to experience some significant, exhilarating descents. A common feature of those alpine descents that you might not be so familiar with are hairpin turns. The good news for those who need a little practice is that there are usually quite a lot of them strung together, and with a just a few pointers on technique you will be able to see dramatic improvements after just a few days riding.

To see a judge decide to quash a case in this way is rare, said Toronto criminal lawyer Frank Addario, who isn't associated with the case.

Her supervisor testified he felt her actions were wrong. Pointing in Warriner's face and standing in her personal space, for example, would have been "triggering," the supervisor said, adding video of the incident is now shown in hospital training.

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