Kelowna judge who cried during a victim statement to rule on recusing herself

KELOWNA — A judge who cried during a victim impact statement is expected to release a decision today on whether she’ll disqualify herself from sentencing a man for sexual assault.
The man’s lawyer told Kelowna provincial court Judge Monica McParland in July that she is incapable of delivering a fair sentence because she became emotional during the victim’s statement and she scoffed at the defence suggestion for a sentence.
Defence lawyer Jacqueline Halliburn asked the jud