if you google his name, dude literally just got out prison
Judge gives 'amoral thug' 7 years for manslaughter | Toronto Star
A 21-year-old Mississauga man has been given a seven-year prison sentence for his role in a murder designed to "instil fear" in Mississauga's Malton community.
Jason Hay swore at Justice Kenneth Langdon after he imposed the sentence for manslaughter for Hay's role in the Nov. 3, 2007, slaying of David Latchana, 23.
The judge decided not to give Hay the usual two-for-one credit for time served. Hay must serve another five years and three months behind bars.
Langdon also recommended Hay not be eligible to seek parole until he's served half his sentence.
"F--k you, fakkit," Hay swore at Langdon as he was led by several burly court officers from the prisoner's box in a Brampton courtroom this afternoon. "...soft time... I'll be home in two years."
Latchana was shot point blank in the head by Demar Duntin, 23, and although Hay never fired the deadly bullet, Langdon said he gave the killer information about Latchana's whereabouts. He helped Duntin and was there when the young man was slain in front of his younger sister, who would also have been shot had the gun's chamber not been missing a bullet.
Duntin previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. He's serving a life sentence with no parole for 15 years.
Langdon said Hay set up the "chain of events that led to Latchana's death" outside of a Monica Dr. home being used as an after-hours booze can.
A jury acquitted Hay of first-degree murder but found him guilty of manslaughter on July 10.
Langdon said the jury rejected the Crown's allegations that Hay passed the murder weapon to Duntin, knowing he was going to shoot Latchana. But Langdon said Hay knew Duntin meant Latchana physical harm and knew he had firearms whether or not he was aware he had a firearm that night.
It was Langdon's view that Hay was "beyond any hope of redemption." He imposed a sentence he said reflected society's disgust for those who use fear and intimidation to "undermine" the rules of law.
"What's at stake is nothing less than whether the community of Malton is ruled by the law of Canada or by bunch of amoral thugs...sadly Jason Hay is just that," Langdon said.
He said Latchana's "public execution" was designed to "instil fear" in the Malton community and show what would happen if they co-operated with police.
He said this case was inextricably interwoven into the fabric of a criminal subculture which asserts that any citizen who becomes involved as a witness in a criminal case is liable to be murdered.
"It pits the desire of right-thinking citizens. . .against a vicious criminal element that would cripple the administration of justice by depriving it of witnesses through fear, intimidation and homicide," Langdon said.
He said Hay's role might seem relatively innocuous but it takes on a far more alarming aspect when viewed in the context of a competition between the rule of law and criminal lawlessness.
At the time, Landon said, Latchana was not a witness but everyone in the community knew he was a would-be witness and whatever happened to him would serve as a warning to one and all that "dire consequences" would be dealt to anyone co-operating with law enforcement.
Crown prosecutors Steve Sherriff and John Raftery argued at trial that Latchana was shot to death because Hay and Duntin considered him to be a snitch. They believed he either did or was about to testify as a Crown witness in an earlier case.
Langdon noted how seven months before Latchana's death, Hay and Duntin co-authored a rap song which said snitches should die and warned that members of their family tree would also be killed.
"In another era, the equivalent might be having a town crier make an announcement that David Latchana was to be executed for being a witness," Langdon said. "The song became prophetic..."
On the stand, Hay testified he saw people who helped police as committing an "act of treason" against the criminal subculture, and these snitches deserved death.
Hay and Duntin denied the song was about Latchana but Langdon said it was clear he was the subject and it was written as a warning to others. Had Latchana not been murdered at the Monica Dr. booze can, Langdon said he might have been a victim of a drive-by shooting as the rap song said.
Defence lawyers Jack McCulligh and Robert Jagielski argued Duntin shot Latchana as revenge for fighting another friend and his death had nothing to do with the rap song posted on the Internet.
Langdon noted the warning worked because many Crown witnesses lied either to police or under oath at trial, afraid they would suffer the same deadly consequences.
Court heard that Hay has a criminal record with 50 convictions and that while waiting in his cell today, was found with a piece of a chair that could have been used to create a shank (weapon).
Hay was also on probation for the fifth time at the time of the killing, court heard.
At trial, Hay denied being there when Latchana was gunned down by Duntin.
just wait till those white conservatives get a hold of this