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Give. Me. A. Break.
Apr. 2nd, 2010 10:49 amYou want to know why defence lawyers are always shown as slick and sleazy in crime shows? They're showing you the real world.
A little background information: in 2005, a teenaged girl named Jane Creba was shopping on Yonge Street in Toronto on Boxing Day, the busiest shopping day of the year. If she'd stayed home, she'd still be alive today--a gang assassin with horrible aim opened fire on a rival and ended up killing her and wounding six others.
The one shooter who got her pleaded guilty of second degree murder two years ago and got a life sentence (really 12 years; that's when he can get paroled). Two others involved in the shooting were just found guilty of manslaughter.
The lawyer's comment? "He obviously didn’t want anybody to be harmed and certainly didn’t want an innocent person like Jane Creba to die."
Well maybe he shouldn't have been involved in a gang shooting!
Article from the Hamilton Spectator
A little background information: in 2005, a teenaged girl named Jane Creba was shopping on Yonge Street in Toronto on Boxing Day, the busiest shopping day of the year. If she'd stayed home, she'd still be alive today--a gang assassin with horrible aim opened fire on a rival and ended up killing her and wounding six others.
The one shooter who got her pleaded guilty of second degree murder two years ago and got a life sentence (really 12 years; that's when he can get paroled). Two others involved in the shooting were just found guilty of manslaughter.
The lawyer's comment? "He obviously didn’t want anybody to be harmed and certainly didn’t want an innocent person like Jane Creba to die."
Well maybe he shouldn't have been involved in a gang shooting!
Article from the Hamilton Spectator
