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Supreme Court Agrees To Hear Appeal In Case Of Deadly Patio Crash In Edmonton

IANS, 12 Jan, 2017 12:54 PM
    OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear the appeal of a man who crashed his SUV onto an Edmonton restaurant patio, killing a toddler.
     
    Richard Suter was initially sentenced to a four-month jail term and a 30-month driving suspension after pleading guilty to failing to provide a breath sample in a death, but the Alberta Court of Appeal raised the jail term to 26 months.
     
    At trial, court was told that two-year-old Geo Mounsef was having dinner with his parents and baby brother when Suter's vehicle pinned him against a wall.
     
    The judge ruled that witnesses wrongly assumed that Suter was drunk after his vehicle plowed into the patio in May 2013.
     
    Following the crash, Suter was beaten up by a mob and was later abducted from his home by three masked men and had a thumb cut off.
     
    As usual, the Supreme Court gave no reasons for deciding to hear the appeal.

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