Saskatoon man convicted of manslaughter

Jake Ottertail

A Saskatoon man who beat his roommate to death due to an argument is guilty of manslaughter. Jake Ottertail had been charged with second degree murder for the death of Bert Haverkort on August 7 2010. The defense lawyer states that the argument was fuelled on booze, a threat and racial insult. Haverkort had told Ottertail "to calm down, you're going native on me." while fully aware that Ottertail is aboriginal. With that remark, Jake flipped out and within minutes, Bert was dead.

Ottertail's defense lawyer requested a pre-sentence report requesting that Ottertail's aboriginal background and experiences factored into the sentencing. He returns to court July 16 for sentencing arguments.

This relates to Law 12 because currently, we're talking about factors that could affect sentencing and we also talked about things that could affect the type of offence (booze).

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/story/2013/06/05/saskatoon-manslaughter-conviction-130605.html