Racial discrimination factors into reduced sentence for double shooting

But the judge noted mitigating factors, including the discrimination Sheikh experienced “growing up as a racialized person in Toronto,” the arm injury he suffered during the altercation, the “particularly punitive pretrial incarceration” he weathered, the fact that he was injured while in custody and “the strong family support that” he enjoys, which “increases the prospect of rehabilitation,” reduced his sentence to 12 years, 10 months, and 23 days.