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An extremely rare and exceptionally restrictive designation handed down this week to a Winnipeg man who killed his parents and brutally stabbed his former nursing supervisor should be used with caution — but lawyers say they expect to see it used more often as the option to label an accused high-risk gains attention.Trevor Farley stabbed his former nursing supervisor at Winnipeg's Seven Oaks General Hospital in October 2021, on the same day he killed both his parents.
People who are found not criminally responsible are already subject to a potentially indeterminate sentence, where a provincial review board has oversight over when and how they are eventually given more freedoms or discharged. Anita Szigeti, president of the Law and Mental Disorder Association, says the high-risk accused designation for people found not criminally responsible can have serious implications.
But the process also "communicates an unwarranted distrust" in the provincial review boards that typically oversee not criminally responsible cases, since that responsibility is essentially reassigned to the courts in cases where an accused is deemed high risk, she said. "When they keep somebody in who could otherwise be out, you're destroying a life, right? And maybe not just that one life but also family members, children of that person."But Kevin Westell, a Vancouver criminal lawyer who has worked extensively on not criminally responsible cases for both Crown and defence, said the high-risk designation isn't about distrust of the regular process.
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