RE: https://flipboard.com/@edmontonjournal/alberta-politics-j0k3pb7sz/-/a-VZSEizYsTuquq8QFzxx-PA%3Aa%3A2509580890-%2F0
When you FU at work there are consequences, unless you are a judge. Perhaps the justices that make bunk rulings that lose on appeal should be paying for the second court case instead of the taxpayers. I bet we would get better judgments then.
"Potts was nonetheless sentenced to just four years in prison, well below the maximum of 14 and closer to the defence proposal of two-to-three years than the Crown’s suggested 10-12.
Justice G.R. Ambrose, an Alberta Court of Justice judge in Peace River, settled on the four-year sentence in part because the woman’s victim impact statement had been misplaced, which he said left him with insufficient information about how the attack affected her.
A three-member Court of Appeal panel found serious issues with Ambrose’s approach. In particular, it said he should have paused sentencing until the victim’s impact statement could be located."
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