Devin Maduro & DeShawn Stoutt eligible for parole after @ least 30 years
For Maduro, Justice Ellis ruled that he will be eligible for parole after serving 35 years and for Stoutt he will have to serve 30 years before being eligible for parole.
The two convicted men are both serving life sentences at Her Majesty’s Prison at Balsam Ghut on the Virgin Islands’ main island of Tortola.
Maduro was sentenced to life imprisonment for the July 23, 2004 murder of Anderson Paul and Stoutt was sentenced to life imprisonment for the January 25, 2007 murder of Godwin Cato.
Stoutt was sentenced in 2009 and Maduro in 2007.
DDP recommended between 25-35 years waiting period for both convicts
Representing the Crown, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Wayne Rajbansie had said on December 11, 2015 that the Crown recommended between 30 and 35 years minimum waiting period for Maduro and between 25 and 30 years for Stoutt.
He had told Justice Vicki Ann Ellis that she should distance herself from any proposal to allow a first opportunity at a parole hearing after 12 to 15 years, noting that the VI should be emulating the British system.
Justifying his position, Rajbansie said that the two murders are not equal and noted that they should attract different times for first appearance for parole review.
Rajbansie had also slapped down the attempt by defence attorney Patrick Thompson, who used the argument that Maduro’s actions could be considered youthful folly. Rajbansie said that such a justification makes a mockery of the judicial systems set up to deal with youth or juvenile offenders, who are not as old as 25 years, the age Maduro was at the time of committing the offences.
The DPP said that from all indications Maduro has not taken any responsibility for the murder of Anderson Paul. He said this was the same with Stoutt with regard to the murder of Cato.
“Generally remorse calls for the applicants to accept that they are the ones responsible [for the deaths],” he said.
Rajbanse argued that catharsis is necessary for the two offenders and that time already served must be taken into consideration.
The two convicted murderers were represented by attorney at law Leroy Jones.
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family. Everyone have a conscience.
Where the offender is 21 or over at the time of the offence and the court takes the view that the murder is so grave that the offender should spend the rest of their life in prison, a 'whole life order' is the appropriate starting point. The early release provisions in section 28 of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997 will then not apply. Such an order should only be specified where the court considers that the seriousness of the offence is exceptionally high. Such cases include:
a) the murder of two or more persons where each murder involves a substantial degree of premeditation, the abduction of the victim, or sexual or sadistic conduct;
b) the murder of a child if involving the abduction of the child or sexual or sadistic motivation;
c) a murder done for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause; or
d) a murder by an offender previously convicted of murder.
Where the offence is not so serious as to warrant a whole life order but the seriousness of the offence is particularly high the appropriate starting point is 30 years. The following examples are given:
a) the murder of a police or prison officer in the course of his duty;
b) a murder involving the use of a firearm or explosive;
c) a murder done for gain (in the course of a robbery or burglary, or done for payment);
d) a murder intended to obstruct or interfere with the course of justice;
e) a murder involving sexual or sadistic conduct;
f) the murder of two or more persons; or
g) a murder that is racially or religiously aggravated or aggravated by sexual orientation.
Where the offender the offender took a knife or other weapon to the scene intending to (a) commit any offence, or (b) have it available to use as a weapon, and used that knife or other weapon in committing the murder the normal starting point is 25 years. This increased minimum term does not apply in relation to a life sentence imposed for an offence of murder committed before 2 March 2010.
For all other offences the appropriate starting point is 15 years.
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They took your young life Andy. You gone but you in our hearts little our hearts. Rest in Peace
Those who use the sword will die by the sword.
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Those same scriptures also say if your right hand offends you to cut it off. The scripture also says in the commandments you should not kill then those same scriptures went on in Leviticus chapters 18-20 a whole different thing
So what scriptures r u talking about. Anyway people have a right to feel the way they feel that is why when people go to court for any type of crime here they don't get off. The police don't lie and the victims don't lie.
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