Gerald Stanley Not Guilty

[Twin_Moose]

Gerald Stanley due back in court to face allegations he improperly stored 7 guns

The legal troubles of Gerald Stanley, the Saskatchewan farmer man acquitted in the shooting death of Colten Boushie, are slated to carry over into provincial court next month.
Stanley, 56, still faces two charges of improperly storing firearms on his Biggar, Sask.-area farm where Boushie was killed.
Boushie, 22, was shot with a Russian-made, semi-automatic Tokarev pistol after he and four others drove onto Stanley's cattle farm in August 2016.
Stanley testified in the Battleford Court of Queen's Bench that the Tokarev accidentally went off while he held it near Boushie's head. He had retrieved the gun from his shop.
A jury found Stanley not-guilty of either 2nd-degree murder or manslaughter.
7 firearms tied to charges
Stanley is now scheduled to face the improper firearm storage charges in North Battleford Provincial Court on March 19.
Scott Spencer, Stanley's defence attorney during the murder trial, said he will again represent Stanley.
The charges are tied to seven of the 10 firearms found by the RCMP during a search of the Stanley farmhouse and shop two days after Boushie was shot.
RCMP found both the Tokarev and a Ruger Blackhawk revolver inside a black case in a farmhouse closet.
But while the revolver is listed among the guns said to be improperly stored, the Tokarev is not.
The Ministry of Justice wouldn't comment on why that is.

But Solomon Friedman, an Ottawa-based defence attorney with a focus on firearms law, said it could be argued the Tokarev wasn't being stored in any long-term sense.
"The Tokarev was in use. The fact that he put it down temporarily in there until the police got there means that it probably technically wasn't stored," said Solomon.
"You don't want it in front of you or you don't want to be holding it when the police arrive," he added. "It's not to shift blame or anything. It's just because you don't want there to be some terrible misunderstanding [with police]."
'Maybe a fine'
Solomon said it's possible Stanley could come to a plea agreement with Crown prosecutors before his court date.
And if he doesn't?
"In my experience, somebody living in a rural property who's otherwise licensed but they haven't complied with the letter of the law when it comes to storage, they tend to be looking at non-jail sentences, anywhere from a discharge to a suspended sentence, maybe a fine."

 

[petros]

You're splitting hairs there, Pete. It's not officially labelled a "felony" in Canada- but murder anywhere in the world is still a felony. (Just another word for serious crime)


fel·o·ny
ˈfelənē/
noun
noun: felony; plural noun: felonies
a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.
"he pleaded guilty to six felonies"
Origin

Middle English: from Old French felonie, from felon (see felon1).

mis·pri·sion1
misˈpriZHən/
nounLawhistorical
noun: felony
the deliberate concealment of one's knowledge of a treasonable act or a felony.
Origin

late Middle English: from Old French mesprision ‘error,’ from mesprendre, from mes- ‘wrongly’ + prendre ‘to take.’

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In Canada it's an indictable offense. Any good Canadian knows this from Grade 6 Social Studies.

 

[Twin_Moose]

Will we ever know? newspapers are not allowed to publish the identities of the jurors....or are they?

No they are not that is why they publish in general terms such as there appears to be no visible FN on the Jury

 

[petros]

Will we ever know? newspapers are not allowed to publish the identities of the jurors....or are they?

Can't.

 

[Twin_Moose]

Maybe there were.....We only know there weren't any visibly native jurors......

According to the article that I posted a few pages back or in another thread, they interviewed a potential juror that wasn't selected. He said of the of the 200 jurors that showed up approx. 1/2 looked to be Native mostly on the right side of the room and on the left side was mainly white with a few Native, a couple of Asian and Black persons peppered in

 

[Hoid]

I can't believe anybody would question the selection of an all white jury.

If it has been an all native jury nobody would have batted an eye.

Just another example of the racism that exists in this country - outside of all white juries of course.

Those are legit.

 

[petros]

Would Hoid have been accepted or passed over?

 

[Twin_Moose]

I can't believe anybody would question the selection of an all white jury.

If it has been an all native jury nobody would have batted an eye.

Just another example of the racism that exists in this country - outside of all white juries of course.

Those are legit.

Maybe if the FN community didn't jump ship at every opportunity they could in the Jury selection there would have been a FN majority on the Jury panel

 

[petros]

Or weren't so f-cking racist.

 

[taxslave]

You can fire a warning shot into someone's face.

As long as he's an indian. And you're white.

And you live in Saskatchewan.

But according to the SJWs it is OK for drunk Indians to steal from white farmers.

Do they get to skate because they are drunk or because they are indians?

What an astonishing thing for you to say.

Exactly what PET said in the late 1960s.

The two of you are wrong, but he came to understand why. You never will.

First Nations will never be equal to white settlers and everyone knows it. This is why the current Trudeau is trying to "create a new legal framework".

The Canadian legal framework (or Just Society if you prefer) is only for Canadians - and First Nations will never be that.

Certainly not as long as they get special treatment based on race.

Would Hoid have been accepted or passed over?

Depends on if there is an IQ test.

Also I believe to be a juror one has to be of legal age.

 

[JLM]

As I said, if Gerald Stanley comes within 5 feet of me, I’ll fire a warning shot at him..

As he already has killed someone I suppose I can say I called him a murderer he got angered and came after me.. self defense had to kill him.

Now I doubt I will ever meet the man, but please be in Texas if I ever do.

So a guy can work on a project in his own yard and have to expect to be accosted & worse by a bunch of drunken, thieving thugs! I'd say that goes against one of the basic human rights! I normally expect to see sensible posts from you.

 

[petros]

a bunch of drunken, thieving thugs!

Your forgot armed.

 

[Hoid]

Certainly not as long as they get special treatment based on race.

they already do. everybody does.

that is why we have race.

 

[JLM]

Your forgot armed.

Mea culpa, but I think "thugs" covers it! (You're on the ball this morning, Pete)

 

[taxslave]

Mea culpa, but I think "thugs" covers it! (You're on the ball this morning, Pete)

The fact they were armed makes using a gun for self defence a defendable position.

 

[Hoid]

The fact they were armed makes using a gun for self defence a defendable position.

"and the all white jury agreed"

 

[JLM]

"and the all white jury agreed"

The "colour" of the jury is irrelevant. Any sensible jury would agree.

 

[Cannuck]

If you have something to say to me JLM, you should say it in the public forum and not in a PM. That way, more people can have a laugh.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Free passes for every Native criminal.
Mandatory Native only jury for Native criminal.
Mandatory Native only jury for any white criminal.
Even if convicted, Native criminal can only be sentenced to healing circle for 3 days.

Cool!

Just keep the drunk-ass f*ckers away from me!

 

[JLM]

Cool!

Just keep the drunk-ass f*ckers away from me!

They'd have to be pretty drunk not to stay away!