Results: Should this doctor be given bail?
Published on 09/12/2014
A former Quebec doctor who admitted to stabbing his two children to death has been granted bail. A judge ruled this morning that Guy Turcotte should be freed pending his new first-degree murder trial next year. A jury found Turcotte not criminally responsible in 2011 and he was released from a psychiatric institution in December 2012. The Quebec Court of Appeal overturned the verdict last November, citing errors by the trial judge in his instructions to the jury. Turcotte told the court during his bail hearing he should be freed because it is his right and that he could be of more use to society as a caregiver to some of his relatives instead of spending time in prison.
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Should this doctor be given bail? Yes
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No
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