Youth found guilty in stabbing
A necessarily unnamed young person has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 16‑year‑old Jannai Dopwell‑Bailey outside his school, two years ago. The convict is now of adult age and the prosecutor says he will be asking the judge to sentence them as an adult.
bob 12:53 on 2023-12-13 Permalink
So, we can pretend someone was an adult while under age for the purpose of imposing a harsher sentence than the law allows for people who commit crimes while not adults, but we cannot name this (now) adult because the crime was committed while not an adult. Makes sense!
Ian 15:38 on 2023-12-13 Permalink
25 YEARS FOR ADULTING WHILE CHILDRENING
bangs gavel *
carswell 17:55 on 2023-12-13 Permalink
Given the details of the case, specifically that the murderer had been suspended from school, made a special trip for the purpose of attacking Dopwell-Bailey, chased him down when he tried to flee, forced him against a wall, stabbed him repeatedly and then fled the scene to post a picture of the weapon and insults about Dopwell-Bailey on social media, I incline toward his being sentenced as an adult, especially as mental illness has not been mentioned as a mitigating factor.
A reminder too that Legualt and Plante both made a big show about condemning the near-contemporary death of white 16-year-old Thomas Trudel in St-Michel and visiting his memorial but had zero reaction to Dopwell-Bailey’s assassination until embarrassed into doing so — and then performatively — by his family and media reports.
Ian 22:07 on 2023-12-15 Permalink
Vicious and premeditated as it was, he was not an adult.
Anyone that has studied developmental psychology could speak to this popular misconcpetion at length, or you could simply look it up.
The nastiness of a crime does not affect the mental capacity of the perpetrator. This is why we have the distinction between adult and juvenile court.