I’m struck by the contrast between two recently published local stories.
Emmanuel Alviar “pushes the side of a car and throws a piece of wood at a window” during the Stanley Cup riot. He turns himself in and gets a month in jail.
Monty Robinson kills a person while driving drunk. He is convicted of obstructing justice by foiling the police investigation and gets ... a conditional sentence.
I don’t mean to excuse Mr. Alviar’s behaviour. I’m saying there is no excuse for the behaviour of Robinson’s judge, Justice Janice Dillon. To me, she had the poorest judgement of the three.
Kent Dykstra
Cloverdale