Summary
"Why did you agree to an adult sentence?," he pointedly asked Gisele Champagne after she submitted her arguments asking that Beardy's penalty be concurrent with a sentence he's already serving.
[Ron Meyers] decided to hand Beardy a 90-day adult penalty for striking -- but not injuring -- an RCMP officer with a piece of broken glass during "an uprising" involving five young offenders at the Agassiz Youth Centre on Sept. 30.In arguing that the teen should receive a sentence that added no extra time to his penalty, Champagne presented reports detailing how Beardy came from a dysfunctional family that led him towards gang life, and that his "impulsive behaviour" is largely due to having an intelligence quotient lower than 70. An IQ of about 90-110 is considered normal.See the full content of this document
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Defence Lawyer Grilled Over Adult Sentencing
Agreed to procedure for mentally limited boy
A Manitoba judge is questioning why the lawyer of a 15-year-old boy with limite...See the full content of this document
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