Must I Remind You that Celebrities are Above the Law?
Stepping away from politics for today...
On 08 March 2004, in the dying moments of a hockey game, Vancouver Canuck Todd Bertuzzi jumped Steve Moore of the Colorado Avalanche from behind and beat him to a pulp. Resulting injuries: severe concussion, broken vertebrae.
Today, he was allowed to plead guilty to some minor form of assault that let him off with community service, probation and no criminal record. Outside of a professional sports arena, a teenager would have gotten worse under the young offenders act. An adult would almost certainly have received a prison sentence, a psych evaluation, and a big black mark of a criminal record.
The plea bargain came as a shock to Moore and his attorney – they found out about it by watching television. Yes, there’s no legal requirement for the Crown to have informed them, but common courtesy should have suggested it would be a good idea. From the same report, they found out that the court date had been moved up. Moore’s victim impact statement, while basically ready, wasn’t completely prepared yet. A short delay to allow him to travel to the BC court in order to deliver the statement in person was denied. A simple reading of it would be adequate, the judge felt, again following the letter of the law.
You might by now have guessed that our Tool today is His Worship, Judge Herb Weitzel, the judge who heard, if that's the right word, the Bertuzzi case.
Do you think that Judge Tool is a Canucks fan?
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