David Butcher

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  At the hearing on Monday and Tuesday, Atwal's defence counsel David Butcher told the court the murder was the result of an intergenerational conflict, between father and daughter, over her choice of a boyfriend.

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  Defence counsel David Butcher, the latest of several new lawyers since the trial, told the court his client has been in jail since the murders, and is only now eligible for violent offender treatment.In Mountain Institute, a maximum security penitentiary, McCotter was recently attacked and nearly killed, by another inmate â€" Robert Anderson, the brother of Linda, Butcher said.

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  Defence counsel David Butcher, in his submission to the jury, said the Crown's case was circumstantial, and speculative, and that prosecution witnesses had recounted only "surrounding circumstances.""None of these witnesses can tell us precisely when or where Amandeep died, or more importantly, who killed her," he said.

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  Defence counsel David Butcher made his submission to the jury of five men and seven women on Tuesday afternoon.He had called no defence witnesses, but advised the jury that prosecution witnesses had recounted only "surrounding circumstances."
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  "Life experience and common sense" also indicate Atwal did not act like a guilty man, Butcher said.
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  "There are many reasons, many gaps, many things in this case that can lead you to have a reasonable doubt that Mr. Atwal killed his daughter, and you must acquit him," Butcher concluded.

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  Counsel: David Butcher for the Appellant Stone

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  David Butcher, Atwal's lawyer, wants his client to be considered for parole after 12 to 15 years behind bars while the Crown is asking for 20 to 25 years.
  
  Butcher read from letters of support written by Atwal's friends, a former school teacher, a priest at a Sikh temple and various family members, including his son and daughter.
  
  "My dad has been here for me all my life," wrote his daughter Tejinder, who is about to graduate high school.
  
  Atwal's son Narinder called his father "a great human being."
  
  Atwal's parole eligibility is scheduled to be set June 22.
  
  Butcher said support from friends and family, with offers to help Atwal reintegrate into society after his release from prison, is an unusual feature of the case.
  
  "In many homicide cases the accused either comes into the court process as an isolated individual with no community support or certainly by the end of the process becomes isolated with no support," he told Justice Catherine Wedge.
  
  Butcher said Atwal came to Canada from India in 1975 with a Grade 9 education and worked at the Kitimat Alcan plant for 23 years before his arrest.

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  In quoting Atwal's lawyer David Butcher, Wedge said Atwal's motive for the murder related solely to his daughter having begun to make her own choices that conflicted with his cultural conservatism.
  
  Outside court, Atwal's wife continued weeping as she was flanked by supporters.
  
  They included her son Narinder, 25, who said he was "very torn" about his father's predicament.
  
  "On the one side is my father, on the other side is my sister," he said, without commenting further.

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  In quoting Atwal's lawyer David Butcher, Wedge said Atwal's motive for the murder related solely to his daughter having begun to make her own choices that conflicted with his cultural conservatism.
  
  Outside court, Atwal's wife continued weeping as she was flanked by supporters.
  
  They included her son Narinder, 25, who said he was "very torn" about his father's predicament.
  
  "On the one side is my father, on the other side is my sister," he said, without commenting further.

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  David Butcher, Atwal's lawyer, wants his client to be considered for parole after 12 to 15 years behind bars while the Crown is asking for 20 to 25 years.
  
  Butcher read from letters of support written by Atwal's friends, a former school teacher, a priest at a Sikh temple and various family members, including his son and daughter.
  
  "My dad has been here for me all my life," wrote his daughter Tejinder, who is about to graduate high school.
  
  Atwal's son Narinder called his father "a great human being."
  
  Atwal's parole eligibility is scheduled to be set June 22.
  
  Butcher said support from friends and family, with offers to help Atwal reintegrate into society after his release from prison, is an unusual feature of the case.
  
  "In many homicide cases the accused either comes into the court process as an isolated individual with no community support or certainly by the end of the process becomes isolated with no support," he told Justice Catherine Wedge.
  
  Butcher said Atwal came to Canada from India in 1975 with a Grade 9 education and worked at the Kitimat Alcan plant for 23 years before his arrest.

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  Published on: 6/15/2005    Last Visited: 6/15/2005  

  David Butcher, Atwal's lawyer, wants his client to be considered for parole after 12 to 15 years behind bars while the Crown is asking for 20 to 25 years.
  
  Butcher read from letters of support written by Atwal's friends, a former school teacher, a priest at a Sikh temple and various family members, including his son and daughter.
  
  "My dad has been here for me all my life," wrote his daughter Tejinder, who is about to graduate high school.
  
  Atwal's son Narinder called his father "a great human being."
  
  Atwal's parole eligibility is scheduled to be set June 22.
  
  Butcher said support from friends and family, with offers to help Atwal reintegrate into society after his release from prison, is an unusual feature of the case.
  
  "In many homicide cases the accused either comes into the court process as an isolated individual with no community support or certainly by the end of the process becomes isolated with no support," he told Justice Catherine Wedge.
  
  Butcher said Atwal came to Canada from India in 1975 with a Grade 9 education and worked at the Kitimat Alcan plant for 23 years before his arrest.

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