He was convicted of the first\u002Ddegree murders of Lorenzo Giordano and Rocco Sollecito, and was found guilty of conspiring to kill both men.
The trial began in late January, and the jury deliberated for 19 days — one of the longest deliberations in Canadian history — before reaching unanimous decisions on all four charges. The record for the longest deliberation is 28 days.
“In the name of us all, and in the name of the community you served as judges, I want to thank you for your services. All good things must have an end though,” Superior Court Justice Michel Pennou told the 10 jurors who remained on the panel at the trial’s end.initially refused to testify“No. I won’t be answering any questions,” the informant told prosecutor Isabelle Poulin after she asked her first question.
“F—ing me over is f—ing everybody over. It ain’t happening,” the informant said back in February while complaining that his contract with the Sûreté du Québec was not being respected.With the first-degree murder verdicts, Scarfo automatically received a life sentence with a period of parole ineligibility fixed at 25 years. Pennou said he will hear sentencing arguments on the conspiracy charges at a later date.
Prosecutor Marie-Christine Godbout told the judge she will check to see if any relatives of the two victims wish to make statements before Scarfo is sentenced. Lorenzo Giordano was killed on March 1, 2016. He was shot five times in the head and neck while seated in the passenger seat of a vehicle parked in front of Carrefour Multisports, a sports centre off Highway 440 in Laval where Giordano worked out regularly. Civilian witnesses who testified at the start of the trial said Giordano’s girlfriend, who was in the driver’s seat,
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