Zhang killer only gets 15 yrs w/o parole

[Knut]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...en-parole.html

What is this crap??

How can a guy that kidnaps and kills a girl not get the maximum??

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Hesla

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...en-parole.html

What is this crap??

How can a guy that kidnaps and kills a girl not get the maximum??

Next time, read the article as the headline was misleading. Chen has to serve 15 years before he is eligible for parole. That doesn't even mean he will be automatically granted parole after 15 years. The article doesn't really state what he was sentenced to though. I would imagine that it is life in prison with parole eligibility after 15 years.

[loob job]

Yeah, hopefully it's life in prison, parole after 15 years seems a little nuts though, look at karla homolka paroled after 10 years, even thought that was a deal. I doubt he'll get out after 15 but even having the chance is crazy.

[Knut]

Life w/o parole for fukkers like this...

He should get no leniency because he "didnt mean to" kill her.

I see it this way... Kidnapping.... automatic 10yrs.... + 2nd degree murder.... automatic 25 on top of that....

[bluejays]

while I wish this guy had the book thrown at him, there are rumors down here that after the 15 years, he'll be deported back to China. What do you think they'll do with him over there?

[Knut]

Originally Posted by fleury

while I wish this guy had the book thrown at him, there are rumors down here that after the 15 years, he'll be deported back to China. What do you think they'll do with him over there?

Actually, maybe they should have deported him back right away and let the Chinese firing squad get him..

[Robbob]

I heard that after he serves his sentance her he is up on some charges in China so even if he out here in 18 he gets shipped back to china where he will do more time.

[Mike F]

He got a mandatory life sentence with no parole before 15 years.

The sentence was part of a plea bargain between Chen and the Crown, which was attractive to the Crown because of the lack of evidence regarding the aggrevating factors necessary to be proved to get a stiffer sentence.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Hesla

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...en-parole.html

What is this crap??

How can a guy that kidnaps and kills a girl not get the maximum??

Well, the prosecution was never asking for the maximum, so it's hard to imagine the judge assigning the maximum. I was surprised that the charge was dropped to murder in the second; the fact that it was in aid of a kidnapping, even if unintentional, fits with first degree. Makes me think that either they felt their evidence wasn't strong enough and they needed the guilty plea, or the victim's family didn't want to see this man's life ruined. I don't think that even in Canada, the prosecution would have dropped the charge down simply out of the goodness of their hearts, unless it was something the family wanted. Anyway, either he'll make his first parole and get shipped back to China, or he'll decide he fears deportation to China enough that he'll intentionally avoid getting paroled.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Mike F

He got a mandatory life sentence with no parole before 15 years.

The sentence was part of a plea bargain between Chen and the Crown, which was attractive to the Crown because of the lack of evidence regarding the aggrevating factors necessary to be proved to get a stiffer sentence.

I think the reduced charge was part of a plea-bargain, but not the sentence; the fact that the defense was asking for twelve years and the prosecution was asking for 17 means that there wasn't a plea-bargain in place regarding the sentence. If the sentence is part of the plea-bargain, then they present that directly to the judge.