A choose says she expects to ship a sentence in September for a younger man convicted of manslaughter within the hit-and-run demise of a Calgary police officer.
Sgt. Andrew Harnett died after being dragged by an SUV, then falling into the trail of an oncoming automotive on Dec. 31, 2020.
The offender, who’s now 20, was days away from turning 18 when Harnett died and was driving the car when it took off from a routine site visitors cease with the officer holding on to the wheel and attempting to get him to cease.
His defence lawyer, Zachary Al-Khatib, instructed Court of King’s Bench Justice Anna Loparco that his consumer ought to serve seven and a half years, minus credit score for time served.
Crown prosecutor Mike Ewenson says the younger man ought to serve between 11 and 13 years.
Loparco has dominated that he will probably be sentenced as an grownup, however the publication ban on his identify stays in impact till the top of any enchantment interval.
