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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
If he denied the murder or claimed it to be a terrible accident and expressed fears of the American legal system I could see the family helping him hold up until they could explored a legal defense. Perhaps they felt that a Canadian rich white boy might not get a fair hearing in the US or maybe they wanted the promise of no death penalty on paper. Perhaps they wanted to negotiate a surrender under the condition that their son would do his time in a Canadian prison; Who knows?
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If history is any indication, an upper-class rich caucasian will get the fairest and easiest trial in the American justice system. They already promised they wouldn't give him the death penalty, and he wasn't even confirmed to be a murderer yet.
He would have gotten an easy sentence compared to, say, a Latino-American gang member who pulled the same act and isn't a TV star, but I digress...
