Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 28, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free september 2000 local As Appeal court reserves decision dangerous offender wants sentence lifted by Mike Mclntyre a Man with a history of violently attacking and terrorizing women is seeking to shed his Label As a dangerous offender and the indefinite prison term he is Dennis Roy appeared before Manitoba court of Appeal yesterday to argue a lower court judge erred in ruling he is a menace to society who should remain behind bars for an undetermined period of his Sheldon said the 1998 decision by court of Queens Bench Justice Barbara Hamil ton was based on a Jurys verdict which was both inconsistent and it stemmed from his most recent conviction for attacking a woman near Lockport in in which he was found not guilty of raping but guilty of several other Hamilton ruled the convictions for forcible confinement and Possession of a weapon met the Cri Teria for a dangerous offender Label and gave Frank the indefinite sentence to be served on top of a five year term for assaulting and threatening the woman during the same Pinx told the provinces highest court yesterday the jury should Only have convicted Frank of the which Doest carry a maximum penalty beyond 10 years and would therefore not have made him eligible for a dangerous offender apply he said the attack on the woman was a ongoing transaction which the jury wrongly picked apart with a Scalpel and isolated several different Inci rather than focus on it As one single Pinx said the fact his client was acquitted of the original charge of sexual assault with a weapon or even the included offence of simple assault with a weapon raised questions about their finding of guilty for Possession of a the jury didst believe the complainant on some very crucial they did not believe she was sexually assaulted at they didst believe at any time that he used a what then do we have said Crown attorney Lorraine Prefontaine argued the jury was Correct in its findings and urged the Appeal court to uphold Hamiltons following an entire Day of the three judge panel said they were reserving their Franks history of terrorizing women began As a teenager in when he threatened the family of a Girlfriend and shot out the windows in their Home when he was no longer allowed to see after escaping from a juvenile detention Frank made his Way to Winnipeg where he continued to prey on in he pleaded guilty to enter and theft in a Holdup at a 7eleven store during which he also raped the clerk at in Frank picked up a prostitute on Higgins Avenue and drove her to the outskirts of town where he terrorized her with threats before she was Able to leap from the the same Frank also sexually assaulted at gunpoint a woman he met in a Brandon he pleaded guilty to kidnapping and sexual assault and was sentenced to eight years in after being released in Frank became the first offender in Manitoba to have his name and photo publicly released As part of the 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