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11-16-2010, 09:37 PM
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| Pickton cost BC and taxpayers more than $102 MILLION dollars
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Mon Nov 15, 10:37 PM
By The Canadian Press
VICTORIA - The mammoth investigation and mega multiple trials that ultimately convicted serial killer Robert Pickton cost the British Columbia government more than $102 million.
B.C.'s Ministry of Attorney General quietly released the final tally Monday on its website, including all provincial expenditures for the matter from April 2001.
The largest total cost was the RCMP investigation itself, running nearly $70 million for the province and covering 70 per cent of the total policing bill.
Defence lawyers were paid just under $12 million, while prosecution totalled just over $9 million.
The province also covered $1.8 million in high-security upgrades to the New Westminster courthouse and changes to the prison where Pickton was incarcerated, though that's not included in the overall sum.
The Port Coquitlam, B.C., pig farmer's second-degree murder convictions for the deaths of six women were upheld by Canada's highest court in July.
Pickton was arrested Feb. 2, 2002 and eventually charged with murdering 26 women, but his case proceeded only on the first six with plans for further prosecution to follow.
After a trial that lasted a year, then-attorney general Wally Oppal said there was little to be gained by trying the man on the remaining 20.
The controversial decision wasn't supported by all the victims' families, but Oppal said that Pickton was already serving the maximum sentence under Canadian law.
Jailing Pickton has so far cost $737,000, while victim support services cost the province $2.4 million. Another $6.6 million covered trial support and security operations by the courts.
While the DNA of 33 women were found on his farm, the man had boasted he actually killed 49 women.
Oppal is now tasked with heading a public inquiry into the disappearance of women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the rough neighbourhood from where Pickton lured his victims.
The inquiry, which has until Dec. 31, 2011 to submit a final report, will look into how and why so many women were allowed to be murdered before the serial killer was arrested.
The B.C. government will also pay the inquiry's bill.
| I'm going to let the article speak for itself. Our justice system? A joke.
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11-16-2010, 09:41 PM
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bullets only cost a doller
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11-16-2010, 09:46 PM
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11-16-2010, 09:47 PM
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11-16-2010, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by johny  bullets only cost a doller | should used a knife instead to murder him, save yourself a dollar.
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11-16-2010, 09:50 PM
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thats why there is a victims fee if you ever go to court now.
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11-16-2010, 09:51 PM
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Defence lawyers were paid just under $12 million, while prosecution totalled just over $9 million.
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11-16-2010, 09:55 PM
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i woulda killed him for free. shoulda gave the money to the families not the lawyers
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11-16-2010, 10:01 PM
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11-16-2010, 10:09 PM
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#10 | | what manner of phaggotry is this
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at least we got a conviction for this one..
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11-16-2010, 10:12 PM
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#11 | | WHAT? NO FOOD?
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Why not just throw him in prison for life?
Government could use money for somewhere else.
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11-16-2010, 10:27 PM
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Case like this will be a lot easier in China.
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11-16-2010, 10:28 PM
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Originally Posted by T.H.C | It's easy to look at someone who's obviously guilty, and say we wasted money on them.
But if you look at all the backlash against the new driving laws and longer impound and probation periods - you must also understand the importance of our right to a fair trial, as well as a right to legal counsel (among other things). Unfortunately, high profile cases are expensive, but they are necessary. And everybody deserves a fair trial.
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11-16-2010, 11:01 PM
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so I guess this is why we created the HST tax.
we need the extra tax dollars to pay for something which could've only costed a lot less if it were done by a more efficient justice system.
+1 to spending the money on the victims' families. Especially those with children.
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11-16-2010, 11:01 PM
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11-16-2010, 11:12 PM
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Should give me 10% of that money and I would cut of his penis and let him die slowly free =D
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11-16-2010, 11:14 PM
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There is something I don't get.
since he is getting the maximum sentence in Canada, isn't that equivalent as life sentence?
Why not just kill him and save our tax dollars from sheltering and feeding him for life???
please correct me if I'm wrong, I know shit about laws.
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11-16-2010, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by orange7 There is something I don't get.
since he is getting the maximum sentence in Canada, isn't that equivalent as life sentence?
Why not just kill him and save our tax dollars from sheltering and feeding him for life???
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Canada abolished capital punishment in 1976
i hope someone shanks him in prison
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11-16-2010, 11:24 PM
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^ slits his throat with a sharp object (double thumbs up).
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11-16-2010, 11:43 PM
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Bullets only cost a dollar,
but the right to a fair trial is priceless.
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11-16-2010, 11:44 PM
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canada should make exceptions to having the death penalty in cases like this
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11-17-2010, 12:13 AM
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Changed the title of the thread to reflect the truth. Newspapers always love headlines. Sure, the trial was expensive. But the investigation of the farm and the forensics? That was the real killer. $70,000,000 give or take. That was a lot of dirt they had to dig up and sort through.
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11-17-2010, 01:36 AM
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And to think we didn't get everyone involved... even the Jury believes there are others involved hence the controversial question to the Judge of "can we convict of murder even if he's just a party to" (along those lines) and the police are just like
"whatever we got one"
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11-17-2010, 02:53 AM
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#24 | | I bringith the lowerballerith
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Originally Posted by Qmx323 Canada abolished capital punishment in 1976
i hope someone shanks him in prison | I rather him rot in prison and get raped everyday.
$102 million dollars in fees and a quick-easy death for him? nty.
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11-17-2010, 03:25 AM
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to the people saying they would have killed him or w/e... I highly doubt you guys would have done it... com'on be real, it's just internet tough talk and you guys know it. In doing so wouldn't you guys be commiting murder yourself? I'm not defending robert pickton in anyway, but it's easy to be big behind the computer monitor right..
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