WINNIPEG -- A former Mountie has avoided jail time after Crown prosecutors appealed a sentence for his actions during a police chase that ended with the shooting death of a man in northern Manitoba. The Manitoba Court of Appeal imposed a three-month sentence for Abram Letkeman but stayed an order that he spend any time behind bars. The appeal ruling said a jail sentence "would have had an important purpose in deterring other police officers from overreaching the bounds of their authority and venturing into criminal conduct -- and in loudly denouncing such conduct." Even so, two of the three Appeal Court judges found the former Mountie still did not need to go to jail.