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Jacob Cook, 29, pleaded guilty to manslaughter Monday in the August 2019 death of 47-year-old Derek Cowan. Cook and three others had been charged with first-degree murder.
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The four accused pleaded guilty to manslaughter three months ago. Van Dyke is asking Justice Adam Germain to sentence each man to 10 years in prison for the killing, with reductions for time already served. The suggested sentence proposal takes into consideration the very difficult upbringings the men have suffered along with their lengthy criminal records, he said. All four defence lawyers suggested a sentence of eight years for their respective clients. 'Poster child for Gladue factors' The court ordered a presentence report for Fischer and Gladue reports for the other three men. Gl...
Saskatchewan Chief Justice Robert Richards dismissed Gamble’s appeal. In the May 5 Court of Appeal decision, Chief Justice Richards, in concurrence with Justices Neal Caldwell and Jeffery Kalmakoff, ruled that the trial judge’s decision to reject Gamble’s request for a Gladue Report wasn’t unreasonable. Gamble’s lawyer Laura Mischuk had appealed his sentence on the grounds that the trial judge erred by not ordering the preparation of a Gladue Report claiming it led the trial judge to impose a “demonstrably unfit sentence.” The trial judge had relied on three Pre-Sentence Repo...