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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Let's be clear here, he was the passenger but was really just as blameworthy as the driver. He yelled for the driver to go, then took the wheel to steer while the driver tried to push the officer off the car door, ultimately sending him into oncoming traffic. It was really a team effort murder. Of course, he was sentenced to manslaughter.
From the other side, he's spent more than 18 months in prison hasn't he? Wasn't he in jail throughout trial, and so on? I would think he's spent more than 2 years locked up actually. Which is quite a long time for a 20 year old (when the crime was committed).
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Well, the bolded is not at all true according to:
(a) the agreed upon manslaughter guilty plea;
(b) the facts as agreed to between the prosecutor and the accused (supported by body worn camera video); and
(c) the findings of the judge in sentencing.
Here is a report of the sentencing:
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Hall said the sentence would have been six years, but he deducted one year because of mitigating factors, including the guilty plea, Abdulrahman's young age and his expression of remorse.
The judge also ruled that Abdulrahman was a "minor participant" in fleeing, he was "at no time the direct operator" of the SUV and his "movements were reactionary."
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...ence-1.6330001
However, the second part of your post is helpful in trying to bring the discussion to actual facts.
The offender received a 5 year sentence, but from the same article, because of his pre-trial custody it was reported as of the date of his sentencing, he had only 3 years and 5 months left to serve.
The offender was arrested after turning himself in on the night of the incident (January 1, 2021) and the sentencing was on January 28, 2022. So actual time served in jail for that period was 392 actual days - all in remand which involves notoriously outrageous conditions (and he appears to have therefore received 1.5 to 1 credit).
From January 28, 2022 until May 18, 2023 (the apparent day that the Parole Board denied full parole but approved day parole in a halfway house setting - not his home as others have suggested) is about 475 days in the federal penitentiary - which would be much less restrictive and harsh time than the remand time.
So, on my math this person served 867 actual days physically in jail split between remand and prison.
He was deemed to have served about 575 days pre-trial custody so total sentence served to date is about 1050/1825 days. He is now allowed to serve the next portion of his sentence under conditions in a halfway house. It is certainly not prison but it is certainly not freedom either.
Is this 'enough' time to be considered 'just'? I will not venture to say. What I note, however, is that the judge and parole board members who we literally appoint and pay to make these assessments on behalf of all of us have decided that according to the facts and the law, these are the appropriate decisions. Without evidence to the contrary, I see no good reason to doubt or undermine them.
I do know that on the parole applications I have been a part of, the stacks of reports and assessments are large, and the analysis of all aspects of an offender's life (far beyond the circumstances of the offence) is very thorough.
For what it is worth.