http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/...d4b73f&k=31029
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Outside court, Pasqua's mother - who didn't want her name used because she feared for her safety - said systemic racism worked against her Native daughter.
"Native people have always been dealt with unjustly," she said. "It was a very sloppy investigation."
The woman claimed police didn't collect all the evidence that could have led to her daughter's acquittal. The second-degree murder conviction was too harsh, she added.
"We're going to appeal and see if there really is true justice in this country," she said.
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I must say crying wolf everytime is a good way to have it ignored when something really and truly is offbase.
12 years without chance of parole for someone who settled a score with someone by pushing them in front of a train who also has multiple prior run-ins with the law doesn't seem unduely harsh to me. Maybe the mother's just upset that the lawyer couldn't reduce it to the charge to manslaughter.