The National Post reports in its Friday, Feb. 6, edition that the Toronto sex assault trial of Magna International founder Frank Stronach was pushed into unsteady territory before it even started by allegations the prosecution improperly coached female witnesses who are set to testify against him. The Post's Adrian Humphreys and Joseph Brean write that witness preparation meetings between prosecutors and the complainants two weeks ago potentially tainted witness testimony to such a degree, Mr. Stronach's lawyer argued in court Thursday, that a motion to stop the trial for an abuse of process will be filed. Judge Anne Molloy agreed there was enough behind defence concerns to allow Mr. Stronach's lawyer Leora Shemesh to call a police officer to the stand to testify about the meetings with the complainants -- while the issue of a possible stay of proceedings will be addressed later, perhaps at the end of the trial. "I want to emphasize at this stage, I am not making any finding that the Crown attorneys in this case acted improperly in any respect," Judge Molloy said in making her ruling in the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto.