Man with 118 convictions -- including eight violent offences, 52 property offences, one drug offence, and 25 for breaching orders or obstructing justice -- has sentence cut in half

A man sentenced to five years in prison for 17 offences, including harassment and choking his partner, leaving bruises, has had his sentence cut in half by the BC Court of Appeal.

The man had 118 convictions before this case. Among them were eight violent offences, 52 property offences, one drug offence, and 25 for breaching orders or obstructing justice, according to court documents ...

... Because he’s Indigenous, courts must take in account traumatic circumstances that send Indigenous Canadians to jail at a rate disproportionate to their population numbers. The trial judge said she did that, according to Marchand’s judgment.

The trial judge said she doubted Murtagh’s could be rehabilitated ...

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