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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Indeed. These are the details of his last robbery conviction from the parole documents. "threatened an accomplice, hitting him in the head with a firearm and stomping on his head. He then made the accomplice rob a fast food restaurant with a firearm, his parole records indicate."
Hard to believe this guy immediately broke his parole and then continued committing violent crime.
If he had 59 convictions for petty theft that'd be different, but there are enough robbery/assault/firearms charges in there that the pattern of behaviour is pretty strong.
Nobody is scapegoating the justice system here - it objectively failed. So then the question becomes why did it fail and how do we stop this from happening again.
Because personally I care more about the feelings of the families of those victims than I do about whether the parole board employees feel bad - and that position is pretty defensible, imo.
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There are lots of guys with records far worse than him walking around. He’s not even an extreme example. These guys constantly get released on bail (parole is actually bit harder). It’s not unusual to get guys bail 3 or 4 times on the original charges before they’re finally denied. - me - criminal defence lawyer.
The supreme court recently struck down stacking parole eligibility over 25 years for multiple murders on a life sentence.
Conditional sentence orders (house arrest instead of real jail) being banned by the Harper government are also being overturned left right and centre across the country lately.
Government can legislate whatever they want, but how it’s interpreted and ultimately upheld by courts is the key. There are some “harsh” judges out there, but there’s lots of soft ones out there too where they let almost everyone out on bail or give light sentences. You better believe defence lawyers try their best to get clients in front of those people.