Cheers, a 62-year-old teacher, was jogging along the side of the Fort San Road, or Highway 56, the evening of March 31, 2008 when he was struck by a car driven by Yuzicapi. The then 21-year-old man was drunk and driving erratically as he headed to Fort Qu’Appelle to buy more booze. Yuzicapi and his four passengers left without getting help for the man they knew to be injured because two of the passengers had exited the vehicle to see what had been hit. Yuzicapi threatened his passengers not to tell anyone. He drove to a garbage dump where he removed the windshield, then continued on with a night of partying.
Where to start?
What’s up with the original sentence of 39 months?
Adding another 12 months is “extending” it?
Sounds more like “rounding it up”.
Why was a convicted drunk driver already back on the road?
Driving ban for life, and penalties equivalent to what would be received if a gun had been used instead of a motor vehicle.
Oh, wait, using a gun the guy probably would have gotten a conditional sentence…never mind.
What’s the use…..
I am more familiar with another case, as I had met the murdered man and his wife 2 or so years prior to this event.
http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/handle/1993/4256
As I recall this event, I think the charged individuals were all released within 3 years.
They were originally charged with murder.
The government has an obligation to provide for my personal security (they must protect me). They do not have an obligation to provide for my personal welfare (they don’t have to make sure I have a home and money). And yet they do the latter and not the former.
If the government chooses not to protect me, they should allow me to protect myself. If you are not going to deal with criminals who hurt me or my family, I should have the right to deal with them in a manner I think is appropriate.
Here’s my story from the east Kootenays in the early 1980’s where I worked as an RCMP Hwy Patrol officer.
Charged a man with impaired driving, he had numerous priors. Had been to jail for some of the priors. Judge wouldn’t send him to jail on this one, as he had been to jail and it didn’t work. A week later, while impaired and prohibited, he hit a motorcyclist head on and killed him. Deceased was a 19 year old honour student with a bright future ahead of him. Went to the grave instead of University. Perp continued his drinking and driving ways.
mike
But according to the Dippers and Liberal dummies we must concentrate on rehabilitation and not any semblance of getting tough on crime. Tell that to this mans’ family. Makes me sick just to listen to the bleeding heart liberals cry out for the anguish this poor misguided drunk driver must feel.
Our lives are like cheap booze poured on the ground, to these elitists that call themselves Judges.
The way they treat pedophiles, drunks, murderers. You would think they have nothing but pity or admiration for them.
These are not true Judges but school Marms for the debased among us. Enablers of a self running money racket. The offenders are their best costumers. Without them where would be their Jobs for this group of Canadian aristocracy? This revolving money tree for Elitists to make status?
No wonder people have given up in getting any real Justice with Marxist flakes running courts.
Because sentences are concurrent, not consecutive, 48 months plus 3 montns is …. 48 months with mandatory release after 2/3 served.
Just enough time to get his masters in sociology.
mike and Revnant Dream, hopefully Canada is on the track to start turning this around. It took decades to get us here and it will take decades to fix, especially the part about the Marxist flakes.
oh my God. he drove to a garbage dump, dumped the windshield? left a man dying in the ditch..not even a nod at a simple charge of mans laughter.
I was about to say that 4 1/4 years was an outrage, but then I read the article.
Crap like this is why I drive the biggest thing on wheels.
Re the concurrent rather than cumulative sentencing….
On conviction the length of incarceration is determined by the greatest offense where multiple offense occurs….however if that specific sentence is struck down at appeal the next most egregous offense kicks in.
In a situation, I was involved in as one of many “victims” resulting from several incidents(home invasions), the Crown asked for 20 years…because the majority of incidents came close to man-slaughter/murder. The Judge however opted to deal with each one by one. After ruling on each, an incident of break enter and wilful damage of a court-house was dealt with by suspended sentence of 1 year.
To the Judge’s obvious chagrin, the quantum added up to 22 years. Never the less, because an individual a “life” sentence meant 4 1/2 years….meaning the fella would be finally be eligible for parole in 12 years or so.
Perhaps the Judge was influenced by the perp’s alleged finding religion while incarcerated on another sentence (3 bank and 1 pharmacy armed robbery).
The Crown briefing the “victim’s, after sentencing opined that the events had not resulted in the victims “finding God/Christ and forgiveness”.
51 months would cost me a million in lost wages, alimony, pension etc.
I am not the target market for the justice system.
Omnibus is a good start.
Death Wish 3 is a good finish.
Agree with VancouverGuy. While insinuating itself further and further into areas in which it has no business involving itself, government, as evidenced by this, the treatment of the “Occupy” movement, and Caledonia, is increasingly abrogating its most basic functions esp security and the maintenance of the rule of law.
Citizens are able to abandon an economically inefficient and socially divisive clan system only insofar as they can rely upon the state to replace one of the most basic functions of the clan i.e. the ability to pursue vendetta on behalf of injured members against outside offenders. Of late, the legal industry seems to have viewed citizens protecting themselves with greater animosity than the thugs who threaten the property and safety of those same citizens. Even more dangerously, as evidenced by Caledonia, there’s a trend toward dispensing justice according to racial criteria. It’s a disturbing trend which must be quickly reversed before citizens begin forming themselves into ersatz clans or militias possibly running along ethnic lines in order to meet the most basic civil function which government is abrogating. If this occurs, the legal industry will have no one to blame but itself.
If I ever wanted a man dead, I’d send him free plane tickets to Canada. Then I’d wait for him by the road in a beat up Chevy with a bottle of Jack Daniels.
T’sun T’Su addressed this over a millenia ago…
“If you wait by the river long enough….the bodies of your enemies will float by……”
“If I ever wanted a man dead, I’d send him free plane tickets to Canada. Then I’d wait for him by the road in a beat up Chevy with a bottle of Jack Daniels.”
You take him hunting. Works every time.
What good would adding to 51 months accomplish? 51 months is a long time. Makes sense.
Just asking- what the hell is wrong with people?
And, no, fifty-one months isn’t long enough. Yuzicapi should be in prison for the rest of his life.
Wouldn’t have lowering the drinking limit from .08 to .05 have prevented this whole tragedy? I think we need to get on this!
Excellent point, Derek. The more responsible social drinkers we can harass and intimidate, the better we can feel about compassionate sentencing of sociopathic drunks.
In the USA, commercial drivers get a ZERO tolerance and random drug tests.
The sad truth about this lowering the .08 to .05 is just ignorance. Most incidents(accidents) involving drinking are usually 2X to 3X over the limit….
I fail to see any point in the .05…
It’s sorta like a gun-grabbers stating…”we can’t do any about illegal firearms …but we can do something about the legal ones……if it saves just one life….”
When I was 21 I was hit by someone who ran – I was a pedestrian. They never found the perp or the vehicle but some CN railroaders stopped and saved my life. The perp stole my money and left me on the side of the road to die. At that time BC had private insurance so the provincial government was taking the place the perp in this case – I hired a lawyer to help me recoup some costs – broken limbs, slashes, concussion etc. – lawyer put off settling until Dippers won election – ICBC has no fault insurance – laywer bolted to be a CP (crown prosicuter)- I lost, lawyer and perp both scott free. Stories like this give me personal anger issues.
51 months for hit n run, drunk driving, and killing someone while being drunk and in “control” of an automobile. Makes me puke. To me thats 2nd degree murder or at worst manslaughter. The time is coming that people will start to take matters into their own hands..I feel it coming folks. True criminals get away with murder…Yet by god, don’t get caught having a campfire after 11pm with a drink in your hand in a National Park.!! For that my friends, is a heinous crime and one that is zealously prosecuted. trust me on that.
“(He was acquitted of impaired driving causing death.)”
Makes sense. After all, he was just driving, impaired, which caused someone’s death.
Wait a minute…
No petroleum jelly for the lad, must learn to take it as a man while in prison.
Jema, If only we had mandatory vehicle registration… you wouldn’t have been run over or robbed.
Thanks for the comment and thankful you’re here.
splat, thanks for the smiles, if you really are 19 years old. If not, you’re playing the part pitch perfect.
The Canadian justice system is not about punishment but about rehabilitation of criminals. They don’t go to jail to be punished but to get rehabilitated. Why dosen’t the PC crowd call a spade a spade and call these places of confinement rehab centers instead of jails and penitentiaries.
splat must have gone to public school for awhile.Maybe even took an arts course,he could’nt have been born that stupid.
I would truly look forward to a 3 strike rule. If you are too stupid to learn from your mistakes the first 2 times, then you deserve to be taken out of society for the rest of your life. Simple.
I asked myself: What’s a Yuzicapi?
I’ve googled it and know what I suspected is true. Another proud member of a First Nations reserve I see.
When they’re drunk, they’re drunk. The limit should definitely be lowered for them.
Or would that be politically incorrect?
gellen – is that drunk or whoopi goldburg drunk, drunk? A drunk or a drunk, drunk? How do you know?
Jema, I have lived a sheltered life. Not that I haven’t seen a drunk or two at some point.
But, nothing prepared me for my first visit to the west and drunken natives. Which is why I say, when they’re drunk, they’re drunk.
Not you’re staggering, whoopsie daisy kind of drunk, but stoned out of your mind kind of drunk.
Back in the 30s and 40s in this part of the world someone who was habitually picked up for being drunk was put on the “Indian List” (and how racist is that?). Maybe it’s a biological thing, but for their sake, they should have a lower limit.
Running on a hwy is a risky proposition. I used to run, faithfully, no matter where I happened to be staying for work. Often times, the only place to make any distance was the hwy. You need eyes in the back of your head, and quick reflexes. The real crime wasn’t hitting the man, it was neglecting to help him afterwards. That is unforgiveable. That lack of conscience and remorse can’t be corrected, it has to be contained. Ten years, and a lifetime driving ban. And please, don’t turn this into a race issue.
My intention wasn’t to turn it into a race issue, but rather that there are far too many fatalities associated with a particular group that involves alcohol.
As coach says their actions are unforgivable, but the drinking problem does result in a great many cases of problems associated with alcohol syndrome. The lack of conscience or remorse could be attributed to that.
Not walking or jogging at night other than on a sidewalk is a wise choice as coach says, but more accidents still occur in vehicles.
The limit should definitely be lowered for them.
Or would that be politically incorrect?
That would be racism.
Omitted the word fetal when referring to alcohol syndrome.