Monday, January 7, 2008

See, I told you so ...

I told you a month ago that the BC government would appeal Robert Pickton's second degree murder conviction and would go for murder one. And today, they did precisely that.

Really, they had no choice. If they didn't cross appeal Pickton's appeal, they were faced with a situation that if the convictions are overturned on a technicality and the six charges in question remanded for retrial, the most BC could hope for, the most they could charge him with, was murder two.

It's not the jury's fault the judge screwed up the charge to the jury. Their verdict should stand as is. They fairly came to that decision and it should not be second guessed. And let's face it, Pickton will never get out of jail anyway. He got twenty-five years to life and no parole board in its right mind is going to let him out, even if he manages to get acquitted on the other twenty charges he still faces.

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