18 months probation, conditional discharge in assault of Premier Couillard

A Quebec Court judge has sentenced a man to a conditional discharge for having tossed a balled up piece of paper at Premier Philippe Couillard during his speech at a a vigil last year.
The decision means Esteban Torres Wicttorff, 21, will eventually be left with no criminal record for having assaulted the premier. But as Judge Daniel Bédard noted in his decision on Friday, the record of the crime will remain on the public record for three years after Torres has completed the 18 months of