Can someone explain to me the logic behind concurrent sentences? I would like it to apply to other things. Like taxes. I’d like to pay my gst and pst concurrently on purchases please.

I assume he is sentenced to life and not 25 years.

Conviction on a first degree murder charge in Canada carries a mandatory life in prison sentence with ineligibility for parole for 25 years. The so called **faint hope clause** for parole after 15 years has been thrown out, so he will have to serve 25 years before he gets any parole hearing.

That’s my take.

My heart feels more broken today than it did before. Many of us thought today’s outcome would provide some closure for us to start to heal but instead I feel like we have been slapped in the face and told that the young girl that meant so much to us and the 3 women who were so loved by their families and friends are worth less than IT.

4 first degree murder convictions, the judge says he is beyond evil and should never walk amongst civilization again yet he gets 4 concurrent life sentences – how does this make sense.

This piece of ****, waste of skin and oxygen who has not only stolen from us 4 of our daughters/friends/mothers/nieces/grandchildren/sister’s… will now be living on our dime for the remainder of his life, and will have the right to apply for early parole after only 15 years – how is that any sense of justification.
The fact that the judge has to take into account other similar cases/convictions and sentences passed on other cases as required by the Canadian Criminal Code is wrong.

This horrible, deplorable aboration of humanity is going to be protected inside the walls of our correctional institutions and then be able to ask to be let out in 15 years – he will be what – 40 years old then – despite the fact that he has committed the most horrendous and grizzly offense against 4 beautiful souls who are lost to us forever.

As grateful as we are to the jury for finding him guilty, to the sheriffs and to the judge and all those who bore witness to all the evidence presented in this trial and who will live with the memories of such for the rest of their lives – this sentence doesn’t feel like justice.

There is something wrong with our justice system, with our world and with our society when these atrocities are granted more rights that the victims of their crimes have.

The families and loved ones of these women will have to suffer through the future applications that IT will make for parole – although unlikely to be granted you can be sure that IT will request parole in the future – and each time we will suffer through the process waiting and hoping that those people who were not part of their lives or the process that brought us to today will have the balls/sense/knowledge/respect to deny IT’s request to walk among those that value human life more than IT did

He has the right to apply for early parole in 15 years – actually 11 years since he is getting time served – this means that he can request consideration for early parole on November 28, 2025.

The reality is that this sicko will never see the light of day again.
Yes the law says that he can apply for parole after serving 25 years, however there is never any guarantee of parole, and if previous serial / multiple murders such as Clifford Olsen, or the guy in Invermere,are an example or precedent parole will be denied. This guy is going to DIE in prison where he belongs!

He’ll never see the outside of a prison again. Good.

Pulled this off Wikipedia. Seems the judge could have locked him away for ever. Wonder why he didn’t.

The maximum determinate sentence is a life sentence with a 25-year parole ineligibility period. For offences committed prior to December 2, 2011 all life sentences and related parole ineligibility periods are served concurrently (at the same time). In cases of multiple murder, where the offence occurred after December 2, 2011 (the date new legislation came into force), a court may, after considering any jury recommendation, order consecutive parole ineligibility periods for each murder. There are also options for an indeterminate sentence. There is no death penalty in Canada.

Wikipedia – “for offences committed prior to December 2, 2011” These offences were in 2009 and 2010. I would think the judge would have preferred to sentence according to the new laws.

Posted on Tuesday, September 16, 2014 @ 2:24 PM by ski51

Pulled this off Wikipedia. Seems the judge could have locked him away for ever. Wonder why he didn’t.

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If you read what you posted it’s right there. It reads, “… offences committed prior to December 2, 2011 all life sentences and related parole ineligibility periods are served concurrently…”

I stand corrected.

He’s never getting out of jail alive.

I agree with MamaRoa,our justice systems needs to be fixed. He murdered 4 women and should be getting a life sentence for each murder. He should never have the chance of parole. The criminals do get more rights than the victims which is sickening. Some get away from being charged because of technicalities when it’s clear from evidence they have committed the crime. I hope this punk gets killed in prison so we never have to hear his name mentioned again.

He will learn how to “not drop the soap”.

“He will learn how to ‘not drop the soap'”.

If I had my way, monsters like this would be executed, but prison sentences are not intended to, and should not, include rape.

I suppose there is a way for someone in Jail to redeem themselves. Someone other than Cody.

As I said above. A conviction for 1st degree murder in Canada carries a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole for the first 25 years.

So he has a life sentence and can apply for parole after 25 years, however you can rest assured he will not get parole. The faint hope clause allowing people convicted of 1st degree murder to apply for parole after 15 years was recinded by the Conservative Government a few years ago.

So it seems he has a life sentence. Not much sense in giving him more years in jail than he will live.

And time served, is time served double? 2035 isn’t 25 years away….

“And time served, is time served double” .. that has also been abolished, 1 or 2 years back.

Sentenced to life in prison. It is really a slap in the face of decent society that taxpaying citizens, some of whom have been personally affected by his heinous crimes, must now contribute to his safe keeping.
He now has more rights than most ‘free’ people, except of course the right to freedom. That is the only satisfaction we are allowed, that he will not ever again enjoy freedom. Really, he deserves a much more severe punishment than our laws permit. Glad to hear of a guilty verdict.
metalman.

Hopefully his jail cell has cockroaches and rats that share his bed with him. I don’t think he will ever see the outside of a prison again. I sure hope not.

I think thirty lashes a day, moldy bread and water for his meals would also be in order.

This is the actual FAINT HOPE CLAUSE; The “Faint hope clause” is the popular name for s.745.6 of the Criminal Code of Canada, a statutory provision that allows prisoners who have been sentenced to life imprisonment with a parole eligibility period of greater than 15 years to apply for early parole once they have served 15 years. Offenders who committed their offence after December 2, 2011 are no longer eligible to apply for the faint hope clause. However, those convicted of offences that occurred prior to that date may still be eligible.
So it looks like Cody would be eligible :( YUK