Another triumph of Canadian justice

According to Stéphane Massinon of the Halifax Daily News, Cory Wright, to be charged today in the first-degree murder of a U.S. Navy sailor, also stabbed another man 14 times waaaay back in 2002. At that time, he attacked barber Matthew Barton, continuing to stab him once he had fallen to the ground, and knifing Barton's girlfriend's shoulder for good measure. Barton had apparently asked Wright to leave a party he was giving. The prosecution requested a 12-year sentence for Wright, but the Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge saw fit to give him 15 months (in addition to time already served), perhaps because Wright promised him that he would "turn his life around". This is why Wright was out on the street last Saturday, when the unidentified American sailor was stabbed, apparently while trying to break up someone else's fight.