Serial rapist not forgotten

By: Law is Cool · November 17, 2009 · Filed Under Criminal Law · Add Comment 

Cold case search resumes for Woodland Rapist

The Woodland Rapist case haunts seasoned investigators as it did when his reign of terror gripped the Oakville community in the days after a joint Halton-Peel-Waterloo task force released disturbing details in 1995.

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Former airline hijacker, Windsor law graduate

By: Law is Cool · September 28, 2009 · Filed Under Administrative Law · 1 Comment 

Former terrorist wants to be lawyer

John Goddard writes for the Toronto Star:

Parminder Singh Saini, 46, blames youth and naïveté for his role in a violent airline hijacking 25 years ago in his native India and says he is rehabilitated.

Mr. Saini was admitted into Canada in 1995 on a fake passport. A few months later, the authorities declared him a national security threat and ordered him deported. As he was fighting this order, Mr. Saini completed a BA at York and a law degree at Windsor. He has already finished his articles. Mr. Saini’s case is now before the Law Society of Upper Canada.

“Over the course of the last 15 years, (Canadian) courts and tribunals have declared that he is a danger to the public and security in Canada and that he shouldn’t remain,” law society counsel Susan Heakes told the hearing this month into whether to accept Saini’s licence application to practise law.

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Family feels betrayed by the law

By: Law is Cool · September 9, 2009 · Filed Under Criminal Law · Add Comment 

Teen’s family blast killer’s deal

A teen stabbed another boy to death last year and carefully tried to hide evidence of his crime. Yesterday in a Brampton courtroom, he received a maximum allowed sentence.

Bob Mitchell of the Toronto Star writes:

… the killer, 15, will serve only eight months, the remaining part of the two-year custody portion of the seven-year sentence imposed yesterday by Justice Bruce Durno for a guilty plea to second-degree murder. The sentence is the maximum for second-degree murder under Canada’s youth laws.

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Toronto bomb plotter sentenced

By: Law is Cool · September 3, 2009 · Filed Under Criminal Law · Add Comment 

Toronto 18 member gets 14-year sentence

A Mississauga man who confessed to being part of a homegrown terror plot aimed at blowing up buildings in downtown Toronto was sentenced today to 14 years, with credit given for pre-trial custody he was ordered to serve an additional seven years behind bars.

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