Quebec man behind controversial sexual-assault sentence granted parole
The Crown appealed Simon Houle's original sentence, which shocked many people last summer, and he was later ordered to serve a 12-month prison term.
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The Crown appealed Simon Houle's original sentence, which shocked many people last summer, and he was later ordered to serve a 12-month prison term.
Crown had appealed Simon Houle's original sentence, which shocked many people last summer.
QUEBEC - A Quebec judge's widely criticized decision to give an engineer who pleaded guilty to sexual assault a conditional discharge was wrong, the province's Court of Appeal said Wednesday as it instead imposed a 12-month sentence.
QUEBEC — A Quebec judge's widely criticized decision to give an engineer who pleaded guilty to sexual assault a conditional discharge was wrong, the province's Court of Appeal said Wednesday as it instead imposed a 12-month sentence.
The Quebec Court of Appeal has overturned a conditional discharge given to an engineer who pleaded guilty to sexual assault and instead imposed a 12-month jail sentence. In a written decision released Wednesday, the court found that the trial judge made errors in deciding Simon Houle's sentence, leading him to diminish the seriousness of the crimes and Houle's level of responsibility.