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On Sun, 3 May 2026 18:27:23 -0000 (UTC), danny burstein
<dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

In <k04fvkpf6ff31ipt3svuqhh9bberf0n64q@4ax.com> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> writes:

[snip]

About the only people in Canada who REALLY get life sentences are >>spectacular killers like Clifford Olson. Robert Pickton or Paul
Bernardo (who non-Canadians might not know but I've got $10.00 that
says Rhino recognizes all three names)

Hey, I may be from the English speaking colonies south of you [a]
but I recognize all three.

Of course, Bernardo's gal pal got a slap on the wrist.

A big part of that was a plea bargain where she supplied additional
evidence against Bernardo. Unfortunately that was unnecessary since
when the police did the search that led to his conviction her plea
bargain told them where to look. Which was unnecessary since there was
a police officer on that team had just transferred to homicide from
drugs and HE asked the sergeant whether they had checked a particular
location and was told no - he told his sergeant "that's normally the
FIRST place we check when doing a drug raid!" and asked permission to
search there - the sergeant said no and guess where the critical
evidence was?

(Exactly where Bernardo's gal pal eventually told them to look - and
if the ex-drug officer had been given permission to search there the
'gal pal' would have been in the dock with Bernardo and been serving
life with no parole eligibility for 25 years rather than been able to
make a plea bargain in return for evidence. (Canada had abolished the
death penalty - had he done his murders 20 years earlier that might
have been his fate))

Part of the reason for the long sentences, I suspect, in
the latter two (not so much with Olson) is the cops and
the other law enforcement groups shitcanned the reports
and the investigations and now with The Eyes of The World
On Them had to pretend to care...

again you nailed it

[a] for most of us and most of you...

Danny gave a good synopsis about 2 of the 3 most infamous Canadian
murder cases in the last 25 years.

(The other being Robert Pickton who was believed to have murdered 52
women but was only prosecuted for 6 of the counts (The crown
prosecutor felt that the public interest would be best served by
getting him convicted on 6 counts and sentenced to life without parole
than allowing him freedom while he was being prosecuted for ALL the
counts)

(https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-pickton-case)
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