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TheStar.com | Crime | Judge ponders sentence in beating and stabbing death of deaf man
A Brampton judge is now deciding how a jury reached its manslaughter verdict so she can render her sentencing decision.
Anthony Medwid, 20, of Brampton was aquitted last year of second-degree murder but found guilty of manslaughter in the brutal beating and stabbing death of a deaf Brampton resident.
Brian Wainman, 27, died in his Church St. apartment in March 2007.
Jurors are prohibited under Canadian law from revealing how they reached their decision so Madam Justice Bonnie Wein can't base her sentencing decision on the verdict alone.
The verdict means, however, that jurors believed Medwid didn't mean to kill Wainman despite admitting he repeatedly punched and kneed Wainman following an argument over beers that night.
Medwid's friend, Corey Martin, 20, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and testified against him during the trial.
Martin admitted he stomped on Wainman and hit him but insisted that Medwid stabbed him 11 times in the face, neck and chest, delivering the deadly wounds.
Medwid denied stabbing Wainman. But he admitted he punched him in the face and repeatedly drove his knee into his face as many as eight times.
He testified that he backed off, and Martin took over, beating and stomping on Wainman's face, kicking him in the side and head until he was unconscious.
He sawed at his throat with one of two knives retrieved from Wainman's kitchen.
It's possible jurors believed Medwid was too intoxicated to form the intent to kill, thereby acquitting him of murder.
Wein must decide on the admitted facts as to whether Medwid was an unwitting observer of the stabbing, as his lawyers Russell Silverstein argued, or an active participant in the vicious assault, as the Crown Brian McGuire said.
Both sides argued their cases today in a Brampton courtroom.
Silverstein insisted that Medwid only formed a "common intention" with Martin in the assault on Wainman.
McGuire maintained that Medwid and Martin acted "as a team" in the deadly attack.
Wainman's facial bones were broken. He would have had trouble breathing. He died of two fatal stab wounds to the heart.
The convicted killer could be sentenced to life in prison. But there is no minimum sentence.
A Brampton judge is now deciding how a jury reached its manslaughter verdict so she can render her sentencing decision.
Anthony Medwid, 20, of Brampton was aquitted last year of second-degree murder but found guilty of manslaughter in the brutal beating and stabbing death of a deaf Brampton resident.
Brian Wainman, 27, died in his Church St. apartment in March 2007.
Jurors are prohibited under Canadian law from revealing how they reached their decision so Madam Justice Bonnie Wein can't base her sentencing decision on the verdict alone.
The verdict means, however, that jurors believed Medwid didn't mean to kill Wainman despite admitting he repeatedly punched and kneed Wainman following an argument over beers that night.
Medwid's friend, Corey Martin, 20, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and testified against him during the trial.
Martin admitted he stomped on Wainman and hit him but insisted that Medwid stabbed him 11 times in the face, neck and chest, delivering the deadly wounds.
Medwid denied stabbing Wainman. But he admitted he punched him in the face and repeatedly drove his knee into his face as many as eight times.
He testified that he backed off, and Martin took over, beating and stomping on Wainman's face, kicking him in the side and head until he was unconscious.
He sawed at his throat with one of two knives retrieved from Wainman's kitchen.
It's possible jurors believed Medwid was too intoxicated to form the intent to kill, thereby acquitting him of murder.
Wein must decide on the admitted facts as to whether Medwid was an unwitting observer of the stabbing, as his lawyers Russell Silverstein argued, or an active participant in the vicious assault, as the Crown Brian McGuire said.
Both sides argued their cases today in a Brampton courtroom.
Silverstein insisted that Medwid only formed a "common intention" with Martin in the assault on Wainman.
McGuire maintained that Medwid and Martin acted "as a team" in the deadly attack.
Wainman's facial bones were broken. He would have had trouble breathing. He died of two fatal stab wounds to the heart.
The convicted killer could be sentenced to life in prison. But there is no minimum sentence.