Juror number 9 was a social worker who took a lot of convincing. She was leaning towards the "just acting out" theory and was favouring the community service and rehabilitation approach.
Because it is hard to separate the bugfuck crazy that you need to be in order to do what he did from the flavour of bugfuck crazy that makes you not criminally responsible. I'm glad they made what sure as fuck looks like the right call in this case and don't begrudge them the extra time it took.
That's a tragedy for that winery -- it has NO relationship to Luca Magnotta, who wasn't even born with that name. He changed it. Maybe because he thought it was cool to have a name associated with a wine? Like some people name themselves "Champagne" etc.
Huge damage has been done to that family business's brand.
I was so glad to hear the "guilty" verdict. It has brought back my belief in the Canadian justice system. The world is safer now - we have one less wacko to worry about.
Christmas came early for law abiding citizens this year. Just too bad they didn't slap him with "dangerous offender" status too Bernardo style to shut down that parole light at the end of the 25 year tunnel.
That's a tragedy for that winery -- it has NO relationship to Luca Magnotta, who wasn't even born with that name. He changed it. Maybe because he thought it was cool to have a name associated with a wine? Like some people name themselves "Champagne" etc.
Huge damage has been done to that family business's brand.