Friday, November 11, 2011

Vancouver riot: "Justice" for first defendant

After pleading guilty the first defendant in the Vancouver riot gets his comeuppance:
An 18-year-old who was arrested by Surrey RCMP and pleaded guilty to possession of stolen property linked to the Stanley Cup riot has received an absolute discharge ...
Now that will send a strong message, won't it? A sign of things to come? Probably.  Bleeding heart judges, useless police, incompetent prosecutors, gutless politicians - we've got it all!

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dismissed - A one off incident!
I conclude the rest will be a two off, three off...well, you get the idea.
Not a great start to this thing is it?

Anonymous said...

Yeah, those lenient judges! Look at this story where a convicted criminal got off with a slap on the wrist through a plea bargain http://t.co/py2QYOBb

Anonymous said...

"The casecouldn't be proven...."

Yeah, and the fact that is name is
Karanvir Singh Saran and he would have screamed racisiiiiissssmmm!!!!! if prosecuted had NOTHING AT ALL to do with it, right?

Anonymous said...

Lets wait and see how the VPD investigation holds up. This individual was not part of that investigation and we should not confuse the two.

Alain said...

If people wonder why some ignore and flaunt the law this along with a lot of other court decisions in Canada will explain why. At the very least there should have been a heavy fine along with a lot of community service and a criminal record. I say this assuming he is a young first time offender, because in such a case I do not think actual time in prison would be appropriate.

JR said...

Prosecutors would never have even asked for jail time. And no judge would have given it if they had. But this isn't even the "slap on the wrist" VPD Chief Chu said it was.