House arrest for criminal negligence causing death
Here’s a sordid crime story. A man has been sentenced to house arrest for participating in a situation which ended with a man’s death. Jonathan Fortier got off lightly after pleading guilty to criminal negligence causing death because the judge assumed he’s no longer a threat to society.
JP 22:37 on 2024-02-03 Permalink
Bet it would have been different if he wasn’t white.
Nicholas 02:00 on 2024-02-04 Permalink
I don’t think that’s what it says?
«Il est vrai que M. Fortier n’est plus une menace pour la société. Cependant, un simple sursis de peine assorti d’une probation […] serait une peine déraisonnablement clémente considérant le caractère grave et ignoble des crimes», a tranché le juge Boucher.
The judge says while it’s true he’s no longer a threat, he shouldn’t get probation as that would be too lenient given the seriousness of his crimes. So he took that into account , but there are other things. It also says, right at the end, that he already served a year in jail, which would count as 1.5 with standard credits. It says he was on drugs at the time (so less aware of the wrongness of his actions) as a small time dealer, has cleaned up his life, and didn’t cause any injuries; he helped his half brother dump this badly injured but still alive guy somewhere (rather than bring him to a hospital), on the orders of the son of a top Hell’s Angel (which was surely a bit of duress), without it saying if the guy was so far gone he’d have died anyway. The half brother got 10 years, and the Hell’s Angels son got 14.
What he did is awful, but is 1.5 years in jail and 6 months house arrest unreasonable given all this? Seems normal for our justice system, and maybe fine, I don’t know. Clearly TVA covered this due to the sordid story and the mob connections.
Kate 09:52 on 2024-02-04 Permalink
Well yes, there was more to the story, but I didn’t want to write a full account of it since the details are in the article at the link : )