Shooting in Yoho?

[Grizzly Adams]

I drive that road, through the reserve regularly, hard not to become paranoid after passing the burned out Mac Dougall church, a historic building and a tribute to a man that devoted his life to helping the Natives, burned in a senseless act of vandalism. No one was ever charged and it was re politicized as actually being a good thing, a new beginning.

Grizz

[nube]

I hear max sentence is 2 years. Most likely won't get that.....
Heard his mother waved at him in court and he waved back on the way out...... If I was a parent I wouldn't be waving or have any remorse for my kid being there and would hope he got fair punishment for something like this. Shows you exactly how the kid was raised.....
I figure the kid gets a healing cirle repramand and goes along his merry way while the tourist has to go through years of treatment and they say may never fully recover.
Good info in the papers today.
When are we going to start stretching some necks for things like this!

[Imagehunter]

Originally Posted by nube

I hear max sentence is 2 years.

Really? Hope they treat him like an adult.

[rem338win]

Originally Posted by Mulehahn

I am aware of the difference. I am not talking charged, I am simply talking arrested. A brief summary of grounds for arrest:

A police officer can arrest where:

-there is reasonable grounds a person has committed an indictable offence
-there is reasonable grounds a person is about to commit an indictable offence
-a person is committing an indictable offence
-a person has a warrant out for his/her arrest.

Since the initial person was not detained for a previous crime, nor charged with anything at the time there was no warrant for his arrest. Since the arrest was made a significant time after the shooting the person was clearly not in the act of committing the indictable offence. Perhaps they thought he was about to shoot someone else, but if that were true he has clearly proven he is a danger and would that would of allowed for a longer detention so unlikely. That leaves reasonable grounds to believe the person initially arrested was the shooter. Perhaps you should look up reasonable grounds. It is not an easy thing to achieve; cant just go "so and so said he did it" or I have a hunch. It takes serious work. That is why it took so long to make the second arrest.

I truly have nothing against the police. They have a hard job. But in this case they made mistakes in the handling if this case. With that I am out. Hope they have the right person this time and it sticks

Glad you're out because you still obviously know little about the subject. Of off no information provided on the investigation you've decided there were no reasonable grounds for an arrest and that the person had no involvement.

That's like saying you know a house has a plumbing issue having only looked at a satellite image with a 100 mile radius and blaming the carpenter.

You keep talking about arrest warrants in the wrong context amongst other glaring issues, and you're still defending a position that has no foundation! Not to mention you are unequivicoly stating the RC's made mistakes without any knowledge of how any part of the investigation has gone or what involvement the original person had.

[alacringa]

Originally Posted by nube

I hear max sentence is 2 years. Most likely won't get that.....

When are we going to start stretching some necks for things like this!

I generally disagree with capital punishment (especially for young offenders), but 2 years for attempted murder (even for a juvenile) seems ridiculously short. That's the kind of crime that should receive a punishment with teeth.