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Prosecutors to seek dangerous offender status for murderer

Chad Alexander Kulba convicted for 2015 Christmas Day stabbing
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In a Red Deer courtroom this summer a Crown prosecutors will seek to have a murderer declared a dangerous offender.

Alberta’s Attorney General approved the Crown’s request to make the case before a judge that Chad Alexander Kulba should be declared a dangerous offender.

Kulba, 36, admitted stabbing Thomas Braconnier, 46, about 30 times in a drug- and alcohol-fuelled attack in Red Deer on Christmas Day 2015. After pleading guilty to manslaughter, Kulba was sentenced in November 2017 to seven years in prison.

Counting the time he had already served, Kulba had about three years left to serve at that time.

A hearing is set to run July 8-31 in which the judge must be convinced psychiatric testimony or other evidence that the convicted person is likely to continue to be violent.

If declared a dangerous offender, a judge can order an indeterminate prison sentence, a set prison sentence or a sentence with a long-term supervision order.

A judge could opt to declare Kulba a long-term sentence after which they must get a sentence of at least two years plus up to 10 years of long-term supervision.



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