How it is interpreted will decide if Fekre is criminally responsible, subject to a possible prison sentence of up to 14 years. Fekre is on trial for killing pedestrian Kristy Hodgson after the car Fekre was driving left the roadway, striking Hodgson and her two dogs. When bad driving — or at least mistaken driving — is so commonplace and even expected, how do you determine which mistakes are punishable by imprisonment? It was, he argued, a “momentary lapse” of the kind found not to be criminal in previous court decisions. I’m not a judge in a criminal court.

Source: thestar November 21, 2017 00:11 UTC