EDMONTON – A central Alberta Mountie convicted of assaulting a handcuffed prisoner has lost his appeal of his sentence.
Const. Ron Lavallee was sentenced in 2014 to two months in jail, two years probation and a firearms ban for assault causing bodily harm.
Court heard that Lavallee beat up a man who was in custody in 2011 at the RCMP detachment in Maskwacis.
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In his appeal Lavallee argued that the trial judge underestimated his post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis and that the sentence would hurt his career.
The Court of Appeal of Alberta upheld the sentence in a ruling released Friday.
A panel of three justices said that assaults of prisoners by police officers are serious, and they did not see any reviewable error.
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