Thatcher's bid for a chance to seek early parole
By Globe and Mail, October 9th.
This report is about an article " Jury accepts Thatcher's bid for chance to
seek early parole" and was accessed on the 9th of October and written
on the same date. The Author is Canadian Press and the
publisher "Globe and Mail". This article belongs to the Criminal
category which deals with paroles and the Sentence of Life
imprisonment.
Mr. Thatcher was convicted to Life Imprisonment in
1984 for the murder of his wife Joann Wilson which occurred in
1983.He is the son of the former premier of Saskatchewan Ross
Thatcher. He was supposed to be not allowed to apply for parole
before 25 years of his sentence were served, but since his situation
changed from the time he was convicted and he seems to have
turned into a better citizen while he was in jail, the Parole Board
allowed a jury hearing to take place and decide whether or not Mr.
Thatcher had a chance to get an early parole. He would have been eligible for a parole
hearing in May 2009. He took several courses, for example the "resume-building" course,
in jail to get his record clean and make a good impression. He also discovered his
interest in religion, testified his pastor. Although he still denies having
committed the crime he was granted an early parole hearing by the jury assigned to this
case.
Mr. Thatcher used the faint-hope clause to get the jury to listen to
his case because the judge that gave out his sentence in 1984 used
the S. 745.6 ( ineligibility for parole ) to "by order, substitute for
ten years a number of years of imprisonment (being more than ten
but not more than twenty-five) without eligibility...