[Clive]

They had no choice. She served her full sentence.

That she served the whole sentence is in itself unusual in the context of the Canadian correctional system.

This is what is infuriating Canadians.

This woman made a deal to turn Crown's Evidence against her husband in return for a 12 year sentence.

The NDP government of the time had an ideological stance that viewed women accomplices in crime as being victims who were perpetrators only by reason that they were acting under duress.

Bernardo's lawyer called it the "deal with the devil", a phrase that has reverberated for the past twelve years.

Only after the deal was made did a video tape become available that showed her to be an enthusiastic participant, perhaps instigator, of torture and murder.

Yet the deal was not repudiated.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

"The NDP government of the time had an ideological stance that viewed women accomplices in crime as being victims who were perpetrators only by reason that they were acting under duress."

All the more reason for my Canadian friends to be mistrustful of words used by the Nouveau Parti Démocratique.

[tahotdog]

Those videos were all clearly scripted and two of the three jurors who were ever interviewed after the trial felt that Homolka was being manipulated.

The entire picture the media paints of this story, as it pertains to Homolka, appears to be a bunch of BS.

[wideawake]

What was most disgusting about the whole deal is that the Canadian authorities WERE NOT compelled by law to give Karla Homolka this sentence.

She lied to the police during her testimony in hundreds of particulars and she failed to disclose evidence she knew existed.

According to her plea agreement, false testimony and withholding evidence were grounds for voiding her plea.

In addition to this, the incompetent local police failed to adequately search the marital home - the videotape evidence was found only after she made her plea, even though the videotapes were hidden in her basement.

If the police had searched her home thoroughly the day she was arrested they would never had any use for a plea agreement.

And again, they could easily have voided the plea agreemnt after the fact and given her life.

the Canadian justice system failed the public in various ways in this case and continues to do so.