Posts Tagged ‘court orders’
A further example of youth jails as child-welfare warehouses, or the girl who became a hot potato PART II
”It’s not recommended. It’s not a polite term. It’s not a recommendation — It’s an order!” — Provincial Court Judge Marvin Garfinkel Last Thursday, I wrote about this girl (do read before continuing further) — who’s being held at the Manitoba Youth Centre because no suitable Child and Family Services placement can be found for her. […]
An (inconclusive) answer to a question that’s always plagued me
(We're obviously talking about a different kind of Warrant)
Just how many warrants are in Manitoba police computers gathering dust?
It’s something I continually have asked myself for the last few years until today, when I was given something of an answer.
It’s 20,000, give or take a few.
That was Det. Sgt. John O’Donovan’s reply to my question at the official unveiling of an RCMP-Winnipeg police warrant (read: ‘Fugitive’) squad today.
His official reply was “more or less.”
You can read all about it here. The unit is already claiming some success in catching crafty crooks who evade the law — sometimes for years,
Now, while that number seems quite large, it’s important to remember that a single offender can be the subject of several warrants at a time.
That person’s arrest can lead to the execution of several warrants.
But realistically, the quoted number of 20,000 really means nothing has changed on the outstanding warrants front since late 2006.
From Mike McIntyre (@mikeoncrime) and the Winnipeg Free Press (@winnipegnews), Nov. 6, 2006 (Can’t provide a link, sorry):
Unexecuted warrants gather dust in system
… Winnipeg police have long complained they don’t have the adequate resources to execute the majority of arrest warrants, which end up simply gathering dust in their system.
Police told the Free Press last month there are more than 20,000 outstanding warrants currently in the system for a number of alleged offences, including federal parole violations.
Sgt. Kelly Dennison said many offenders have more than one warrant against them, sometimes as many as 10.
Here’s hoping the new warrant squad makes a dent in a number that has apparently stayed unchanged in the last five years.
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Joe McNabb and her rehab plan
Evaristo Caniuman
So, Joseph McNabb is back behind bars, just 10 days after she was freed from jail with a time-served sentence of two years jail [one year at double-credit] along three years probation for attempting to rob an injured Evaristo Caniuman in a West End street a couple of years back.
McNabb, who is transgendered and identifies as a female, seemed to have a lot more going for her than a lot of other offenders.
Mostly, she had a place to go [The Elisabeth Fry society transition home] when she got out 11 days ago.
At least some support was there for her. As it has seemingly been through her bail hearings, her prelim, her trial and sentencing.
But by my reading of her new charges, McNabb didn’t even bother to show up at Elisabeth Fry, instead going AWOL for about 10 days, or so the allegation goes.
She was arrested on Garry Street yesterday afternoon.
Probation officers applied for a warrant on the 15th of June after McNabb failed to report to them a day earlier.
Nobody knew where she went off to.
If she’s convicted of the two new breaches she’s facing, that will make 21 court-order breach convictions in her 29-year-lifetime.
While on bail awaiting trial for the killing of Caniuman — she was ultimately found not guilty of manslaughter — she breached court conditions twice, prompting her rearrest.
Those breaches led to a seemingly monumental Winnipeg Police Service press statement that appeared to take aim at the court system and bail conditions.
No one knows why the WPS came out and said it, but here it is for the record:
Homicide Re-arrest
As previously released, on April 10th, 2009, at approximately 6:00 p.m., uniformed members were dispatched to the area of Sargent Avenue and Young Street regarding a male being assaulted.
It is alleged that a twenty-seven year old male confronted a 60 year old male and began to assault him to the upper body. The victim was subsequently pushed to the ground at which time the assault continued. Upon arriving, officers located both males.
The suspect was taken into custody. The victim, identified as Evaristo CANIUMAN was conveyed to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Twenty-seven year old Joseph William MCNABB of Winnipeg has been charged with Manslaughter.
On August 31, 2009 MCNABB was released by the Courts. Since his release MCNABB has failed to comply with conditions of his release on two occasions.
On January 10, 2010 MCNABB failed to comply with conditions of his Recognizance and was subsequently arrested by police.
On April 13, 2010 was once again released by the courts.
On August 23, 2010, MCNABB failed to comply with conditions of his Recognizance and a Warrant was issued for his arrest.
On August 24, 2010, MCNABB was located and arrested in the downtown area.
He has been detained in custody.
It’s important to note that at sentencing, McNabb faced a Crown who seemed adamant she should serve as long as three years for the attempted robbery, based largely on her past breach convictions.
The judge, however, didn’t buy it. He said efforts to rehabilitate her were in the best interest of society and her own.
Her own, extremely able, lawyers argued that the bulk of her remand time at the Winnipeg Remand Centre was spent in isolated, horrible conditions, marred by ridicule and scorn from other inmates and the occasional corrections officer.
But I have only one question.
If it was that bad, how did she ever wind up there again?
UPDATE:
Here’s the link to Justice Hanssen’s decision on sentencing
Here’s the link to Justice Hanssen’s decision on conviction
