Sixteen years ago, Quebec's Sebastien Brousseau killed his 43-year-old mother, stabbing her more than 40 times before he slit her throat. He then wiped his fingerprints from the crime scene, ransacked the house to make it look like a robbery, and headed off to the movies to provide himself an alibi. No matter. He was convicted of manslaughter and served just over a year of his 4-and-a-half year sentence.
But Quebec's Tribunal des Professions, a three-judge panel, has ruled that this shouldn't stop him from joining the ranks of lawyers. Despite protests from Quebec's law society, the panel ruled that Brousseau possesses "the morals, the conduct, the competence, the knowledge and the qualities required to practise the profession of lawyer."
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves, don't they?
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