“If only he had …”The hearing, which has included a constitutional challenge to the mandatory minimum sentence for attempted murder with a firearm, is expected to wrap Thursday. RelatedBoth parents spoke eloquently of the magnitude of their loss. In other words, while the teenager is almost three years in his grave, the operating legal fiction is that he is not, since by definition an attempted murder is an unsuccessful one. “I have never seen him behave that way.”Bahadi said, “The Sammy we know is not the Sammy we saw on the streetcar. “Seeing the way my son was portrayed in court was very hard because that wasn’t the son I knew so well,” Nabil Yatim wrote.

Source: National Post May 25, 2016 18:18 UTC