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Originally Posted by llwhiteoutll
So glad to see that the punishment for killing someone is now the same as attempting to rob a business.
Judge in the case is a joke and a disgrace to the legal profession.
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Judges are bound to apply the Criminal Code and sentencing guidelines in similar cases. Parliament could enact stricter sentences.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadia..._Motor_Vehicle
Dangerous operation causing death
(4) Every one who commits an offence under subsection (1) and thereby causes the death of any other person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fourteen years.
See page 7 here for a chart:
http://www.madd.ca/media/docs/MADD_C...work_FINAL.pdf
Rather than advocating for minimum sentences, MADD Canada has set out below what it believes to be a range of appropriate sentences for impaired driving causing death.
In establishing the following sentencing ranges, MADD Canada has sought to reflect the gravity of the offence of impaired driving causing death, taking into account the major aggravating and mitigating factors.
The proposed sentencing guidelines call for considerably longer sentences of incarceration than are currently imposed upon such offenders.