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ciroccojDemeter ordered to hand over DNA sample
Last Updated Mon, 29 May 2006 23:41:33 EDT
A judge has ordered one of Canada's most notorious murderers to provide a sample to the country's DNA data bank.
Peter Demeter, 73, was in court Monday acting as his own lawyer to argue against a request by an Ontario regional police force to provide the DNA sample.
Peter Demeter was one of my computer class students at Kingston Pen back in 1996. At least, I'm almost 90% sure he was. I know Demeter was in the school, and I know I know the guy in the video - talked with him several times, spent a great deal of time with him in the seven months I was there. The only thing that's making me doubt my memory is that the guy on the video looks a lot less clued-out than the student I remember. My memory of him was that he seemed to be in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, and was often barely able to remember how to turn the computer on. And the guy in the video, though he looks and sounds like that student, is completely alert and lucid. So maybe Demeter wasn't actually my student but just spent a lot of time in the computer room (there were a lot of guys who did that) and the guy I remember as my student was another elderly inmate with a European accent.
Still, whoa. I had no idea what Demeter was in for. It was Kingston Pen, so I knew it had to be something bad - murder, aggravated assault, rape, child molestation, armed robbery or drug dealing were the most frequent crimes. But I think I assumed he was a child molester though, because he was elderly and didn't seem able to commit murder or drug dealing or anything requiring physical strength.
Well. That was an unexpected start to my morning.
Last Updated Mon, 29 May 2006 23:41:33 EDT
A judge has ordered one of Canada's most notorious murderers to provide a sample to the country's DNA data bank.
Peter Demeter, 73, was in court Monday acting as his own lawyer to argue against a request by an Ontario regional police force to provide the DNA sample.
Peter Demeter was one of my computer class students at Kingston Pen back in 1996. At least, I'm almost 90% sure he was. I know Demeter was in the school, and I know I know the guy in the video - talked with him several times, spent a great deal of time with him in the seven months I was there. The only thing that's making me doubt my memory is that the guy on the video looks a lot less clued-out than the student I remember. My memory of him was that he seemed to be in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's, and was often barely able to remember how to turn the computer on. And the guy in the video, though he looks and sounds like that student, is completely alert and lucid. So maybe Demeter wasn't actually my student but just spent a lot of time in the computer room (there were a lot of guys who did that) and the guy I remember as my student was another elderly inmate with a European accent.
Still, whoa. I had no idea what Demeter was in for. It was Kingston Pen, so I knew it had to be something bad - murder, aggravated assault, rape, child molestation, armed robbery or drug dealing were the most frequent crimes. But I think I assumed he was a child molester though, because he was elderly and didn't seem able to commit murder or drug dealing or anything requiring physical strength.
Well. That was an unexpected start to my morning.
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Date: 2006-05-30 05:19 pm (UTC)Canada's outlawed capital punishment, right? Is he just being overly dramatic? I would think that the state would be required to provide him with live-saving (and not just palliative) medical treatment, lest the system become a back door to the death penalty. And the article said he's already had three rounds of chemotherapy while in prison ...
Hmmm.
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Date: 2006-05-30 11:07 pm (UTC)