Source: CBC News, June 21, 2018
Factors like cognitive ability, fetal alcohol syndrome and rehabilitation not considered, appeal states
The man convicted of the 2016 mass shooting in La Loche, Sask., is appealing his adult sentence — and we now know why.
The man, who was 17 at the time of the shootings, was given a life sentence with no chance for parole for 10 years last month, after a judge decided he should be sentenced as an adult.
His lawyers filed an appeal on June 5, citing seven grounds and their belief that the trial judge failed to give proper consideration to the criteria set out in the Youth Criminal Justice Act in order to sentence a youth as an adult.
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