Sentence appeal denied for man who hit and killed a Sask. conservation officer
A man who pled guilty to driving drunk when he hit and killed a Saskatchewan conservation officer will not get a shorter sentence.
Blaine Taypotat was given a 9 ½ year jail sentence for killing a conservation officer on Highway 11 near Saskatoon in May 2013.
He filed an appeal of his sentence, asking for a reduction to eight years but it was denied.
Taypotat’s lawyer, Josephine de Whytell argued the trial judge misapplied a sentencing factor requiring courts to take into account the upbringing of an indigenous offender, such as Taypotat.