US EditionConvicted University of Waterloo stabber resentenced due to court error
- Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, who stabbed three people at the University of Waterloo in June 2023, received a sentence in March.
- Villalba-Aleman pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm following the attack in a gender studies class.
- The judge initially sentenced Villalba-Aleman to 11 years, factoring in pre-sentence custody at a rate of two-to-one.
- Justice Brennan said, "Mr. Villalba-Aleman, to you I owe an apology," for miscalculating his pre-sentence custody credit.
- After correcting the mathematical error, Villalba-Aleman will now serve 3,074 days, an increase from the original calculation.
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Man guilty of UW stabbing to spend more time behind bars after judge miscalculated sentence
Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, 25, pleaded guilty to a June 2023 attack on the University of Waterloo campus that left a professor and two students with stab wounds. Now, a judge has said he will need to spend more time behind bars.
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UWaterloo stabber to spend more time behind bars after judge corrects math
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‘Let’s all just do some math’: University of Waterloo stabber back in court after judge miscalculates his sentence
Justice Frances Brennan had to correct a math mistake she made that would have further shortened the sentence of a man who attacked a gender studies class
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The man behind a mass stabbing in a University of Waterloo gender studies class will have to stay behind bars longer after an Ontario judge recalculated how much to deduct for the time he had already spent in custody. Geovanny Villalba-Aleman was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for what Ontario Court Justice Frances Brennan deemed a “particularly grave” hate crime targeting the LGBTQ+ community. At the time, Brennan said Villalba-Alem…
University stabber to spend more time behind bars in Ontario after judge corrects math
The man behind a mass stabbing in a University of Waterloo gender studies class will have to stay behind bars longer after an Ontario judge recalculated how much to deduct for the time he had already spent in custody. Geovanny Villalba-Aleman was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for what Ontario Court Justice Frances Brennan deemed a “particularly grave” hate crime targeting the LGBTQ+ community. At the time, Brennan said Villalba-Alem…
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