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Top court upholds sentencing for 2017 mosque shooter

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a decision by a lower court to speed up the parole eligibility for the man convicted of gunning down six people in a mosque in 2017 and deemed a 2011 law that allowed lengthy parole sentencing as unconstitutional.

Canada’s top court was adjudicating on the case challenging a 2020 decision by a Quebec court to lower Alexandre Bissonnette’s parole eligibility to 25 years from the original sentence of 40 years of ineligibility.

Bissonnette, 32, pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and six counts of attempted murder for the attack on members of a Quebec City mosque in 2017 in one of Canada’s rare mass shootings.

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