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Originally Posted by Reaper
This has nothing to do with the parole system. The guy served his entire sentence. If you want to talk sentencing that is a different conversation.
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Yup. Or more specifically, talk 'dangerous offender tag and when it should and shouldn't be applied'. The DO tag, in this case, would have allowed the parole board to look at whether he had a high likelihood of reoffending, and choose to keep him imprisoned. Based on the parole board's description of him, it seems highly unlikely that they would have let him out if they had the power to keep him (which they didn't).
From what I can tell, the crown applied to have this guy tagged as a dangerous offender back in 2012; the judge overruled, the crown appealed, and the appeal was dismissed. IMO, the blame in this lies with the original judge in not applying the DO tag, despite strong evidence from the court-appointed psychologist that he was in high percentiles in multiple tests that indicated likelihood to re-offend. The judge ruled that there was 'reasonable possibility of eventual control of the risk in the community', and that this was enough to classify him not as a DO, but as a Long Term Offender.
http://www.canlii.org/en/sk/skca/doc...012skca46.html