[QUOTE=fredr123;2748677]One of the newspaper articles described the guy as a farmer. They also said that the burglar fled the scene and got tangled in barbed-wire on the fence to his property. Sounds like this was rural property and not in the town proper. Not sure how that affects the case though.
Edit: The Calgary Herald says it was an acreage:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/RC...733/story.html
Edit 2: Ugh. And his lawyer described it as "meting out a little prairie justice". That kind of thing is exactly what the police and the Crown don't want citizens to do.[/QUOTE]
I don't read it that way. The relevant passage:
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This is an innocent man who has been wrongly charged with a heinous offence," said Taber defence lawyer Doug Carle.
"This wasn't a case of him meting out a bit of prairie justice. The point we're trying to make is that there're two sides to this story. The only side the Crown is listening to is the side of the criminal. My client was never interviewed about it."
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I see speede5 beat me to it.