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FIRST READING: Courts keep deciding that stabbing people doesn't carry 'intent to kill'

Manslaughter is routinely being applied to homicides where an offender shot or stabbed their victim

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FIRST READING: Courts keep deciding that stabbing people doesn't carry 'intent to kill' Back to video

After an altercation with a man outside a Windsor, Ont., daycare in 2022, 30-year-old Malique Calloo pulled an illegal firearm from his waistband and shot his victim 15 times.

In July, a court declared Calloo guilty of manslaughter, meaning that the magazine of bullets he had discharged at his victim at close range had not carried an “intent to kill.”

Given the time he’s already spent in pre-trial sentencing, Calloo is expected to be free no later than 2030.

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More recently, Inderdeep Singh Gosal plunged a knife six times into the torso of 37-year-old father Paul Schmidt at a Vancouver Starbucks. Schmidt had confronted Gosal about vaping in front of his daughter, escalating it to a physical fight following an argument.

The case became infamous due to widely circulated cell phone footage of Schmidt stumbling out of the coffee shop and collapsing motionless on the front patio.

Again, just last week, a court accepted the defence’s argument that it was manslaughter, not second-degree........

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