Man Who Killed Cellmate Sues for $500,000.00

[undercoverbrother]

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/al...888/story.html

The man found not criminally responsible for stomping his cellmate to death has now sued the Edmonton Remand Centre staff who put him in the cell for $500,000.
Justin Caldwell Somers, 27, brutally attacked 59-year-old Barry Stewart while they shared a cell by jumping and stomping on his head 26 times as he slept on the cement floor in May 2011.
Somers attacked Stewart for eight minutes in front of a surveillance camera unobserved by guards down the hall. Stewart was spending the night in the remand centre instead of paying a jaywalking fine.
In March, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Brian Burrows ruled Somers was not criminally responsible for the killing because he was hallucinating, delusional and likely schizophrenic at the time

Odd the family of the man he killed has not brought an action forward, or maybe I missed it.

[Erick Estrada]

Talk about paying a steep price for not paying a jaywalking fine.

[GoinAllTheWay]

I'm having a tough time understanding why someone who didn't pay a jaywalking fine spent any time in the joint. That seems a hair to much to me considering the "crime".

[CaptainCrunch]

You always get a choice when a fines involved, pay it or do some time.

The question for me is around the guards at the Remand Center and not being near the monitors for 8 minutes.

I don't understand though how this case is getting through to court.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

You always get a choice when a fines involved, pay it or do some time.

The question for me is around the guards at the Remand Center and not being near the monitors for 8 minutes.

I don't understand though how this case is getting through to court.

On every fine? I've had unpaid parking tickets that went unpaid for sometime, never got chucked in prison as a result. Don't see how jaywalking is any worse than that.

totally agree with the guards though, what the hell were they doing? You would think the family of the guy that got killed would be the ones suing.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

On every fine? I've had unpaid parking tickets that went unpaid for sometime, never got chucked in prison as a result. Don't see how jaywalking is any worse than that.

totally agree with the guards though, what the hell were they doing? You would think the family of the guy that got killed would be the ones suing.

Have you ever not paid a fan and not appeared?

Could be that he did both and the judge issued a bench warrant. Which could mean that you get stuck in remand until you appear.

[Itse]

Does the victim have family? I mean it sounds like if you'd rather not pay a fine for jaywalking than go to jail, you must be pretty damn poor, and many very poor people are that poor partly because they have no family to help them, at least the kind that cares.

[pylon]

LOL.

Canada, where you can stomp a guys head until his brains and skull litter the floor, and then sue someone else for your own actions.

Are we seriously living in a Country where this is allowed to happen?

I hope the family of the guy who's head was stomped flat, turns around and sues the guy who did this for $5 million.

[onetwo_threefour]

If anything, the family would sue the same defendants as the inmate. Whose got money, some schizophrenic in the remand center, or the government who may not have properly supervised him?

Sure they'd name the inmate too, but that's not where they'd be hoping to get $$.

[Paladium]

See he was crazy then but once he was off he was sane enough to sue. Please.

Only in Canada eh?

Pity