Attorneys for a Quebec man who killed two youngsters and injured six others when he drove a metropolis bus right into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 say it could be unconstitutional for a decide to declare him a high-risk offender.
A Quebec Superior Courtroom listening to started in Laval, Que., this morning within the case of Pierre Ny St-Amand, who was declared in April not criminally answerable for his actions due to a psychological dysfunction.
The Crown is in search of to have Justice Éric Downs declare Ny St-Amand a high-risk offender, which might impose stricter guidelines on him whereas he’s detained at a psychiatric hospital.
His attorneys say making use of high-risk offender standing to individuals declared not criminally accountable violates a number of articles of the Canadian Constitution of Rights and Freedoms.
They are saying of their authorized briefing that the high-risk standing assumes such offenders are irredeemable and reinforces the stereotype of the “prison lunatic.”
Downs dominated in April that Ny St-Amand was possible in psychosis when he crashed the bus into the daycare, killing a four-year-old boy and five-year-old lady.
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