Court Case: The Case Of R V. Latimer

R v. Latimer

The case with Robert Latimer all began with his twelve year old daughter having cerebral palsy and being quadriplegic. Tracy would suffer from many seizures a day and was also believed to have a brain capacity of a four-month old which caused her to be dependent. Tracy underwent many surgeries to try to give her an “easier” life but nothing seemed to chance any changes. No changes for the better or for the worse. So it wasn’t like she was near death. November 19th 1993, she was supposed to attend another surgery for her hip but on October 24th 1993, around a moth before, he father decided he would take her life. Before being confronted by police Mr. Latimer stated that his daughter had died in her sleep, but when police came with autopsy evidence he confessed by saying he had killed her in his truck. By putting a hose in the exhaust to where Tracy was. He also said that he thought of other ways to kill her, by making her overdose or by shooting her in her head. None of his actions were done out of
Since nothing like this happened prior the criminal code was very narrow on the sentencing for murder, this actually allowed changes to happen within the criminal code. Which would make sense given the circumstance. Before this situation everyone that was convicted with murder, didn’t have a legit reason as to why the person’s life was taken. In my opinion people just kill because they have problems within themselves of out of hate for the person. But in this situation there was a somewhat positive reason to why a life was being taken. The only thing I don’t agree with is that I think his sentence was reduced to much. He still did take someone’s life even if it was to help. No one can be sure that she was in a lot of pain. On the outside it could of looked like she was in pain but what if on the inside she was happy and she enjoying the way she could live her