Defence seeks as much as 9 years for Ontario trucker responsible of killing girl in Edmonton lodge – Edmonton

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The lawyer for an Ontario truck driver who killed a lady in his Edmonton lodge room a decade in the past is asking that his shopper be sentenced to about half the time known as for by the Crown.

Dino Bottos informed courtroom Bradley Barton, who’s 53, needs to be sentenced to not more than 9 years in jail for the manslaughter of Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Metis and Cree girl.

The Crown has argued for a troublesome sentence of 18 to twenty years, as a result of Gladue was susceptible as an Indigenous girl working within the intercourse commerce and was killed in an especially violent manner.

Bottos informed the second day of a sentencing listening to that Barton shouldn’t be sentenced in vengeance for all of the systemic inequities Indigenous girls face.

Barton was convicted in February for killing Gladue, who bled to dying in June 2011 within the bathtub of his room on the Yellowhead Inn.

Medical consultants testified she had 4 occasions the authorized restrict of alcohol in her system and bled to dying from a extreme wound in her vagina.

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It was the second trial for Barton. A jury discovered him not responsible in 2015 of first-degree homicide, which sparked rallies and requires justice for Indigenous girls.