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Seesh.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada...entifies-metis

Prison sentence cut in half for man who identifies as Métis

He successfully argued that the judge who sentenced him erred in the application of what are dubbed Gladue principles

Saskatchewan’s top court has cut a five-year prison sentence in half for a man Prince Rupert police caught with a handgun, ammunition and methamphetamine because the trial judge didn’t properly consider his Indigenous background and how he was affected by systemic discrimination.

He was not exposed to First Nations culture growing up.

“He identifies as Métis through his maternal great-grandfather. Yet, he ‘does not feel a part of the Métis community and has never been involved in the cultural traditions of the Métis people.’”

The father of four is estranged from the sole long-term romantic partner he’s ever had and “has committed violence against her, which was associated with his substance abuse.”

“He ‘feels once he is in school, everything else will fall into place,’” said the decision. “Yet, the pre-sentence report indicates that ‘his plan to accomplish such includes selling drugs while waiting to be accepted into school and that Mr. Umpherville ‘considers committing property crimes or harming people as worse crimes than selling drugs.’”

An assessment “classifies Mr. Umpherville in the high-risk category to reoffend and states that, when he is compared to the remainder of the Saskatchewan offender population, he was ‘assessed to be at the 98th percentile which means two per cent of Saskatchewan offenders were assessed as having more risk factors.’”