Jeanette niganobe trial

Niganobe has pleaded not guilty to charges of impaired causing death and bodily harm and operating a vehicle with a blood-alcohol limit exceeding the legal limit. Home Local News Niganobe tirades filled with vulgarity, jury hears During testimony today at the Jeanette Niganobe trial, officers from two police services recounted profanity-laden outbursts by the accused while she was being treated at Sault Area Hospital during the early morning hours of May 14, Share on Facebook.

Purpose - The fundamental purpose of sentencing is to contribute, along with crime prevention initiatives, to respect for the law and the maintenance of a just, peaceful and safe society by imposing just sanctions that have one or more of the following objectives:. Click here to read the continuation of this article.

Home Local News Niganobe can't drive until she's 47 In addition to the five-year sentence she got today for impaired driving causing the death of City Police Constable Donald Doucet, Jeanette Niganobe has also been ordered to stop driving for the next 15 years.

Share on Facebook. The following is the full text of Justice Whalen's page statement as he sentenced Niganobe today: Reasons for sentence [1] Jeanette Niganobe was convicted by a jury after 14 days of trial over the period of a month.

Niganobe was convicted on June 12, of the following charges: - Impaired driving causing death, contrary to S. The sections are so clearly written that it is best simply to read them, rather than attempt to summarize: I Criminal Code Purpose - The fundamental purpose of sentencing is to contribute, along with crime prevention initiatives, to respect for the law and the maintenance of a just, peaceful and safe society by imposing just sanctions that have one or more of the following objectives: a to denounce unlawful conduct; b to deter the offender and other persons from committing offences; c to separate offenders from society, where necessary; d to assist in rehabilitating offenders; e to provide reparations for harm done to victims or to the community; and f to promote a sense of responsibility in offenders, and acknowledgment of the harm done to victims and to the community.

The offender took Mr. Section She does not come before the court as a first offender. Unfortunately, she has had considerable experience with the criminal courts and is well aware of the process. It is especially significant and aggravating that she was convicted of impaired driving in September The offender cannot say that she was unaware that driving while under the influence of alcohol is a serious criminal offence. It is difficult to believe that it was momentary lapse in judgement.

He had been charged and imprisoned for nine months, and must have been not long out of jail when this collision occurred. Niganobe had received residential treatment for alcohol abuse on two occasions, most recently only a few months before this collision. There is nothing in the evidence filed in support of the application which persuades me that there is widespread prejudice against Mr.

Niganobe or prejudgment of the case. Coverage by the "mainstream" media has for the most part, been fair and factual. Niganobe was impaired on May 14, Her past charges under the Highway Traffic Act are similarly irrelevant to that issue. Having regard to all of the safeguards built in to a jury trial, I am not persuaded that these brief references will prejudice the accused's right to a fair trial. There is no evidence that the incidence of racial prejudice is any different in Sault Ste.

Marie from the rest of the province. The death of a police officer is a significant event in any community and the tragic consequences of this motor vehicle accident are inescapably part of any trial.