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2015-01-09 22:23:38 UTC
Someone remind me . . . . aren't we living in a time of Harper's 'tough on
crime' laws? Or is that just for select groups?
Or did someone decide that premeditated murder of a spouse should become
manslaughter - and this guy should be out and free in maybe 6 years to resume
his extramarital relationship?
Harper, you're a goddamn joke.
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Ex-pastor "Mr. Lorazepam" guilty of drugging and drowning pregnant wife
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5182203-ex-pastor-mr-lorazepam-guilty-of-drugging-and-drowning-pregnant-wife/
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Hamilton Spectator - January 9, 2015
Ex-pastor jailed 15 years for drowning pregnant wife
A former pastor found guilty of manslaughter in the drowning death of his
pregnant wife was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.
With credit for time served, Philip Grandine will serve 14 years and eight
months for killing his wife Karissa, who was five months pregnant when she died.
BACKGROUNDER: Ex-Pastor "Mr. Lorazepam" guilty of drugging and drowning
pregnant wife
The former pastor's actions reached a "depth of depravity that beggars the
imagination of any right thinking person," Superior Court Justice Robert Clark
said in a scathing ruling.
Grandine, a retirement home nurse, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury
after a two-week trial last year.
He had been charged with first-degree murder, accused by the Crown of obtaining
prescription sedatives, drugging and drowning his 29-year-old wife in a bathtub
in their Scarborough home on the night of Oct. 17, 2011.
Clark found as a fact that Grandine drugged his wife twice, first on Oct 13,
2011 then on the night she died.
In the judgment, he found that Grandine contemplated murdering his wife, as
indicated by his searches for terms like "autopsy" and on whether 100mg of
Lorazepam would be fatal.
The crime comes closer to the moral culpability of first-degree murder then the
jury's verdict of manslaughter, Clark said.
The defence and Crown sought vastly different sentences. The Crown sought 15
to 18 years, the defence six months to two years.
crime' laws? Or is that just for select groups?
Or did someone decide that premeditated murder of a spouse should become
manslaughter - and this guy should be out and free in maybe 6 years to resume
his extramarital relationship?
Harper, you're a goddamn joke.
____________________________________
Ex-pastor "Mr. Lorazepam" guilty of drugging and drowning pregnant wife
http://www.thespec.com/news-story/5182203-ex-pastor-mr-lorazepam-guilty-of-drugging-and-drowning-pregnant-wife/
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Hamilton Spectator - January 9, 2015
Ex-pastor jailed 15 years for drowning pregnant wife
A former pastor found guilty of manslaughter in the drowning death of his
pregnant wife was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison.
With credit for time served, Philip Grandine will serve 14 years and eight
months for killing his wife Karissa, who was five months pregnant when she died.
BACKGROUNDER: Ex-Pastor "Mr. Lorazepam" guilty of drugging and drowning
pregnant wife
The former pastor's actions reached a "depth of depravity that beggars the
imagination of any right thinking person," Superior Court Justice Robert Clark
said in a scathing ruling.
Grandine, a retirement home nurse, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury
after a two-week trial last year.
He had been charged with first-degree murder, accused by the Crown of obtaining
prescription sedatives, drugging and drowning his 29-year-old wife in a bathtub
in their Scarborough home on the night of Oct. 17, 2011.
Clark found as a fact that Grandine drugged his wife twice, first on Oct 13,
2011 then on the night she died.
In the judgment, he found that Grandine contemplated murdering his wife, as
indicated by his searches for terms like "autopsy" and on whether 100mg of
Lorazepam would be fatal.
The crime comes closer to the moral culpability of first-degree murder then the
jury's verdict of manslaughter, Clark said.
The defence and Crown sought vastly different sentences. The Crown sought 15
to 18 years, the defence six months to two years.