jud Whither I
icial discretion? BY KELLY HARRIS
f the men convicted in the bru- tal slaughter of eight members of the Bandidos outlaw motor- cycle gang fail in their appeal, they will likely have to serve a minimum of 25 years in jail
before they can apply for regular parole. That means Wayne Kellestine, one of the
six men convicted in the 2006 Shedden, Ont., massacre would be 85 before he could contemplate seeing the outside of a jail. New legislation introduced by the federal Conservative government would rather have Kellestine's earliest parole date be in 2209. He would, by then, be 260 years old.
34 J A NU A R Y 2010 www. C ANADIAN Law ye rmag.com As with all of the criminal law amend-
ments it has introduced, the Conservative government says bill C-54, which puts an end to non-concurrent parole eli- gibility for multiple first- and second- degree murderers, is about standing up for victims and exacting an appropriate price for heinous crimes. Who could
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