{"id":72973,"date":"2016-03-24T09:26:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=72973"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:26:26","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-death-gay-rights-activist-sentenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/03\/24\/man-pleads-guilty-death-gay-rights-activist-sentenced\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who pleads guilty in death of gay rights activist to be sentenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65579\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-2.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled design-2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HALIFAX\u2014A mentally ill man is due to be sentenced today after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of a well-known gay rights activist in Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>Andre Noel Denny entered the plea last November in Nova Scotia Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers presented victim impact statements and arguments at a sentencing hearing last month that heard from friends and relatives of Raymond Taavel.<\/p>\n<p>An agreed statement of facts says on the night of April 16, 2012, Denny failed to return to a Halifax-area forensic psychiatric facility after receiving a one-hour unescorted pass.<\/p>\n<p>The statement says Denny was impaired by alcohol, cocaine and psychosis about seven hours later when he got into an argument with the 49-year-old outside a gay bar, punched him in the head and slammed his face into the pavement several times.<\/p>\n<p>Crown attorney has asked Judge Peter Rosinski to sentence Denny to a prison term between seven and 10 years, with six years credit for time served.<\/p>\n<p>The defence has argued that he should be sentenced to between five and six years in prison, which equates to time served.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALIFAX\u2014A mentally ill man is due to be sentenced today after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the death of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-72973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}