Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
The man who killed Misha Pavelick in 2006 won’t learn his fate on Tuesday after all.
The sentencing hearing, which was originally set for Tuesday, is expected to instead be rescheduled in a short phone call.
Though he’s an adult now, the man currently can’t be named because he was 17 at the time of the killing. That could change if he’s sentenced as an adult.
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Crown lawyer Adam Breker argued last month for the man to be sentenced as an adult, while defence lawyer Andrew Hitchcock argued for a youth sentence, saying that at 17, the man hadn’t developed the moral culpability of an adult.
The man was found guilty of second-degree murder by a jury last fall.
A youth sentence for second-degree murder is seven years – likely broken up as four years in custody and three served in the community. An adult sentence for a 16- or 17-year-old convicted of second-degree murder is an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for seven years.
Whether he’s sentenced as an adult or a youth, the man will serve his time in an adult prison.
