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Originally posted by CaptainCrunch@Dec 11 2004, 04:06 AM
The basis of the sentence was around the cruel and unusual punishment argument. If he would have gone to prison for a multi year sentence he would have because of his former cop status been forced into segregated lockdown, or multi years of 23 1/2 hour days in cell with very little human contact. That to me sounds a little extreme for the crime that he commited.
He made a stupid procedural mistake by carrying his pistol into the cell with a prisoner who made a play for his gun. He shot him once and then over reacted by shooting him in the head, but it sounds like it was an instinctive shot.
It wasn't a malicious or planned act so he shouldn't see the sentence of life which in Canada is 7 years.
Its all in the perspective.
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If a person in a holding cell is harbouring a gun and than the gaurd comes after him for a beating and than the person (not technically an inmate) shots him to prevent the beating but kills him. Sort of a similar situation( I know its a bit of a stretch but its the best I could think of) the poor bas**rd would have had so many charges he'd be in court for the next decade and the least he'd get would be 16 years.
So it seems a lot like a double standard to me. And please anybody don't try the he was in duty. I've seen and heard what some of the gaurds do to the people in holding and some of it's more cruel than the crime their in there for.