Supreme Court denies Sask’s claim for return.man danger criminal tag

Dangerous criminal hearings identify whether offenders are likely to commit violent crimes in the future and, if so, prevent those crimes from occurring through indefinite or fixed-length sentences. The purpose is that.

Judge Murray Acton found Irons’ 13 previous violent crimes to be uncontrollable lifelong violence in the community because he committed the crimes while intoxicated but refused to stop using drugs and alcohol. We found that we established a pattern of

In 2017, Irons was also sentenced to six years in prison for robbing Broadway Avenue Booster Juice and Manos Lounge on 22nd Street with a pellet gun in 2014.

Acton concluded that indefinite judgment was the only way to adequately protect the public.

In 2021, Irons will appeal the robbery conviction that led to the designation.

“The grounds for the appeal against the conviction included that Mr. Irons was the subject of a targeted investigation, that there was insufficient untainted evidence to prove his identity, and that the judge rendered The verdict was unreasonable and contained an amount of miscarriage of justice,” said defense attorney Megan Botis.

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal found that there were serious procedural flaws in obtaining eyewitness testimony, and that there was a problem with the lineup of photographs Saskatoon police provided to witnesses.

“The only thing at issue in the trial was the identity of the person who robbed the jewelry store. Two witnesses identified Mr. Irons as the robber. and the method of obtaining those identifications was flawed,” an appellate judge ruled earlier this year in a unanimous decision to overturn Iron’s conviction.

The acquittal automatically overturned the indefinite sentence attached to his dangerous criminal designation, the appellate judge said.

Last month, Irons was set to stand trial at the Saskatoon Court of Kings Bench on new burglary charges from May. His trial is scheduled for May 2023.

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