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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
I am not sure experts can confidently predict what might happen.
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You can say that for every person who has suffered any form of mental illness. Or just anyone.
Again, this is an emotional plea. You're basing it on what happened nearly a decade ago. But you haven't provided any evidence to him being a significant threat to society today. 8 years after his last episode. (And again, I'm not saying it's easy to remove the emotions from this discussion)
If he's not a threat, the Criminal Code says he needs to be released unconditionally. Maybe being on his own for a full year isn't enough, maybe the Board will want to wait another year before they are ready to deem him a non-threat. That's there prerogative, but they must be willing to follow the Criminal Code of Canada and release him unconditionally if they believe he is not a threat.
This is a man who knows the dire consequences of failing to follow his treatment. This is a man who has been a modeled patient, who has a huge support system with the Schizophrenia Society. It's a man who has shown complete and utter remorse for something he had no control over. There's a lot of people who don't have anywhere close to the same knowledge Li does with respect to his mental illness, they are arguably higher threats at this point.
Everyone presents some form of risk to society, it's up to you to provide some form of evidence that he prevents a high enough threat to not be released unconditionally. If not, on the very basis of our Justice System, an innocent person who is not a threat to society must be released unconditionally.