So everyone in Canada knows the story about Brenda Martin. Omg I’ve heard it so much that I know it off by heart… 51 years old. Chef for some nab wannabe rich guy who bilked some people outa millions of dollars… got fired… got 25k severance. reinvested some of the severance in to the nab guy’s company. got caught in mexico. In jail for over 2 years waiting trial.
Ok so obviously something went wrong here. There’s no reason for her to be in jail without a trial and such for so long… The Mexicans really screwed it up here… And on that note, probably the Canadian government if it took 2 years for this to come to light. Anyway. the thing is, I heard so much about it, I actually started getting annoyed everytime i heard about it..
And then… and people will be really pissed off with me about this… she get’s convicted of the crime.. And I was like LOL! Hahahaha. I dunno.. I just felt it was really fitting for how much her story was publicized here in Canada… Ok yeah, lemme have it… stone me… But wait.. here’s my beef… Now that she *has* been convicted, and has been returned to Canada under some prisoner exchange… I hear now that she still has to spend a few months in jail…
And I’m thinking… hmm… that doesn’t seem right… First of all… her sentence in Mexico was for 5 years… which should be alot less here in Canada. I mean comon.. we have frigging child molesters who get shorter sentences than that. On top of that… She’s been in pre-trial confinement (technically) for more than 2 years… The rule in Canda is that pre-trial confinement counts for 2-1 ratio towards the sentence.. Meaning, she should get credit for 4 and a half years or for her sentence… Ok so that means she *does* have a few months left in her sentence… But then… There’s the whole parole deal. Obviously she would have qualified for parole by now in a similar circumstance in Canada… and given the circumstances… what, that she didn’t kill anyone and all, most likely she would have been paroled… (I think, but not sure… that parole is 2/3 of the sentence… which would have meant she should have been paroled at 3.5 years… meaning… with the pretrial confinement thing, she shouldn’t be in jail at all!
Phew… Anyway. all that to say that… omg enough with Brenda Martin, I’m sick of hearing about her… But before she fades off into history… why the frig is she still in jail???