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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The Power of a Guilty Plea

By: Lawrence Gridin · January 8, 2009 · Filed Under Criminal Law, Humour · 2 Comments 

“You mean,” he said, this look of absolute unbelief working across his face, “you mean, if I’m guilty I get out today?”

“Right.”

“And if I’m innocent I stay locked up?”

“You got it, man.  So what are you gonna be, guilty or innocent?”

James Mills, One Just Man, Simon and Schuster

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