Man convicted in CBC journalist’s 2023 death sought in break and enter investigation

[u/shiftless_wonder]

https://www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/article/man-convicted-in-cbc-journalists-2023-death-sought-in-break-and-enter-investigation/

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[u/StevenMcStevensen]

Convicted of manslaughter for killing somebody in a random attack, gets sentenced to 3 whole years, and serves significantly less due to pretrial credit (which is magically worth significantly more than straight time, just because).

The fact that he is out to be committing more crimes after he was convicted for killing somebody at random just a few years ago is absolutely insane. Our system is a complete fucking joke.

[u/RicketyEdge → u/StevenMcStevensen]

Wild you can kill somebody in 2023, take a year and half plus long ride through the courts, get sentenced, and already be out to commit more crimes by 2026.

Weak sentencing made sure that ending that guys life was little more than a bump in the road for this loser.

[u/FrothyEspresso]

I don’t understand why we’re so useless as a society to put up with this kind of bullshit.

[u/zkwarl → u/FrothyEspresso]

Hint: it rhymes with “the Ciberal Larty of Panada”.

We had an excellent bail and sentencing system before massive legislative changes were made. It is not a coincidence that the crime rates went up substantially over the past decade.

[u/RequirementNo2161 → u/zkwarl]

That’s not fair, the Ben Dee pee also pushes for this

[u/esaul17 → u/zkwarl]

What changes did the liberals make?

[u/SteveMcQwark → u/esaul17]

They don't actually know.

We actually didn't have an excellent system. The problem was that courts struck down the previous bail rules, because they couldn't be followed without violating people's rights unjustifiably. This was because provinces were (and still are) underfunding and under-resourcing the justice system, which meant that there was no space in jails to hold the people awaiting trial who were denied bail under the rules, nor could we justify holding someone in pre-trial detention for the excessive amounts of time it was taking for their cases to come to trial without them having an actual criminal conviction yet. The federal government was forced to allow bail to be granted by judges in more cases because provinces were failing to do their jobs.

The solution is to have enough spaces in jails to hold people and to bring cases to trial faster, which is entirely up to provinces to fix. Even under more permissive rules, judges would be denying bail way more often if it didn't mean holding someone indefinitely in inhumane conditions without a criminal conviction.

[u/Glizzyinmypocket → u/SteveMcQwark]

We do know. Bills C-5 and C-75.

[u/esaul17 → u/Glizzyinmypocket]

https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/45-1/bill/C-5/first-reading

“BILL C-5: An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act”

Can you explain how this made our criminal justice system worse starting a decade ago?

[u/2Shmoove → u/zkwarl]

You got any sources to back up these oversized claims?

[u/Low-HangingFruit]

"Porter said Cropearedwolf has a lengthy criminal history, with 65 offences on record between Canada and the United States — most of which were burglaries or robberies, but with some incidents involving violence as well." - CBC

65 offenses before his manslaughter sentencing and the judge still considered his Gladue report factors and dropped sentence even further. Man deserves a permanent cell, just a menace to society.

[u/ArtDan4Eva]

20 months in jail for randomly killing a guy out walking. I can’t imagine being a family member of the victim and seeing a guy not even get 2 years for taking the life of my loved one.

[u/percocetflrbreakfast → u/ArtDan4Eva]

He did longer than 20 months with time served, but ya still fucked up

[u/According_Comedian69]

I bet he’s got generational trauma

[u/StraightPotential1 → u/According_Comedian69]

Ignorant comment.

[u/biglinuxfan → u/StraightPotential1]

Yeah.. you say that to the family of the reporter he killed less than 3 years ago and he's back out terrorizing more families.

It's not ignorant to recognize there is no benefit in letting criminals free citing bs like generational trauma being behind violent crimes.

[u/AxeloftheMountrain]

Sounds like another liberal minded judge fell for the “marginalized” sob story

[u/rastamasta45]

Woah he’s looking at serious community service! Be careful that might be too harsh as well

[u/Winbot4t2]

Keep voting Liberal!