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Originally Posted by ken0042
On the bolded part, I'll flip it back to you. What are the reasons to give him a full unconditional release?
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Because he's an innocent person who had no control of his actions. It was the mental illness that killed Tim MacLean, Vince Li has been treated for that mental illness and now has it under control, at least according to the experts who have evaluated him over the past nine years. Let's stop stigmatizing the mentally ill. It's not their fault. Both legally and morally.
It's in the Criminal Code, and upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada, that a person who was not criminally responsible and is no longer a threat to society must be released unconditionally.
So the reason is the law. Once (if), the Manitoba Criminal Review Board assesses the he is not a significant threat, he must be released by law.
What you're advocating, he's already been doing. He's living on his own with random drug tests. He has been for a full year now, with the occasional monitoring. Pretty much all the next step is going to do is stop him from pissing in a cup and phoning in to talk to someone every once in a while.