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Originally Posted by FLAMESRULE
Last night they had this on the news. Karla Homolka got 12 years for 1st degree. Race card or not this is a pretty harsh penalty by Canadian standards as mentioned. It was a drug deal gone bad between 2 crack heads. She could have very easily been the one that died.
This by no means condones what happened, and that Canadian justice does need to be strengthened.
Dragon, I agree that the sentence would have been much lighter had she not fled. But who knows she may have become a victim of vigilante justice with Prevosts buddies/fellow drug dealers on the scene.
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Homolka got 12 years for pleading guilty to two counts of manslaughter, if I recall correctly. The Galligan Report, the result of an inquiry into the whole cluster###### once the video tapes and all the facts became known, suggested that a fair sentence under the circumstances would have been 10-15 years. The plea was, therefore, appropriate and necessary under the circumstances at the time according to the report.