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SUPREME COURT TO RULE ON LATIMER THURSDAY

OTTAWA, Jan 15, 2001 (LSN.ca) - The Supreme Court of Canada will rule Thursday in the case of Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who in 1993 murdered his 12-year-old disabled daughter Tracy claiming it was an act of love and mercy. Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition of Ontario told LifeSite, "we're concerned that if the courts decide to give a lesser sentence based upon some misguided concept of compassion, the reality is that the disabled population in Canada will be seen as of lesser value since the only reason to grant Latimer a more lenient sentence would be Tracy's disability."

Latimer was convicted of second-degree murder three times thus far as the case has moved through the courts. In Dec 1997, a judge gave him a constitutional exemption from the mandatory 10-year-minimum sentence allowing him to serve only 2 years - a decision that was reversed a year later.

See the National Post coverage at:
http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20010112/national-48002...

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