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Originally Posted by MBates
3. The Crown agreed to a lesser offence of aggravated assault. The punishment was not for attempted murder. This is a major difference because a judge cannot sentence someone for having intent to kill when they are being sentenced for a crime that does not include that level of intent.
With the drugs and mental health issues maybe the Crown genuinely assessed he could not prove that intent beyond a reasonable doubt. I don’t know and nothing in the media coverage tells us.
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While I barely have an opinion on the sentencing of this person, I think this is absolutely the key point that people were missing. This seems like a pretty harsh sentence as far as aggravated assault goes. People seem to be founding their expectations on an assumption that the perpetrator was charged with something else.