Another bit of context: according to the CBC …
Meanwhile in Winnipeg you can get caught with 5Kg of fentanyl and be released on....an undertaking.
but none of the above cases involved showing the middle finger to the PM
You realize that the Ottawa convoy trials have all been in the lowest level provincial court, prosecuted by provincial crowns, right?
all cut from the same cloth, provincial and federal with similar biases or at least that is the way it appears to this layman. They are the ones handing out 6 months for injuries to an infant. Our judicial system suffers from liberalism and most people in my world (senior, retired, successful financially within reason, own home etc.) while we don't consider them corrupt, we believe that they don't understand the meaning of the word justice.
Broken record here: this guy only got 3 months of house arrest for doing the same at about the same time ...
www.ctvnews.ca
Broken record here: this guy only got 3 months of house arrest for doing the same at about the same time ...
... when the Crown originally asked for 10 years.Crown appealing ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King’s sentence
The Crown is appealing the three-month conditional sentence handed down to 'Freedom Convoy' organizer Pat King last month.
My mistake: he got 3 months plus credit for time served, so he was already in jail.
I'll leave "reasonableness" to those smarter than me in all things legal (although I'd like to see justice that allows for both some punishment without torture, and some rehabilitation without being too loosey-goosey).
The crown asked for 10 years. The judge granted 3 months. There is a real disconnect here between the ask and the receive that I don't understand. Was the crime so heinous that only 10 years would satisfy the need for justice? Obviously the judge didn't agree (and I agree with the judge) but my honest question is why the 'ask' in the first place? What standard was being applied and what rationale or orders from on high guided the crown in the request?
What do you make of what the Crowns themselves, as a group, had to say in that respect?
Just to be clear, Pat King was not sentenced to three months full stop. His global sentence was a year, with nine months of it already served, and the remaining three months’ custody to be served in the community on a CSO. While there’s still a great disparity in what Crown asked for versus what he got, a sentence of one year with nine of them in jail differs a fair bit from a sentence of just three months total in the community. Pre-sentence custody is factored in as part of the total ‘amount owed’.
