28-04-2025
In Calgary courts: Crown seeks peace bond for rapist who just completed his lengthy prison term
The prosecution wants restrictions placed on a violent rapist, including electronic ankle monitoring, who just completed his entire sentence for kidnapping and sexual assaulting a Calgary teen.
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Duty counsel Bob Haslam appeared in Calgary Court of Justice on Monday and asked that Corey Manyshots' case be adjourned to Thursday so he can try to find a lawyer.
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Manyshots completed his 12-year prison sentence on Friday and would have been released into the community without conditions had the Crown not applied for a peace bond, which can place restrictions on individuals for as long as two years if they're deemed an ongoing danger to the public.
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Crown prosecutor Janice Walsh, who heads her office's high risk offender unit, said they have been given attorney general clearance to seek an ankle monitor as a condition of any court order.
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Under the Criminal Code, a party — with the consent of the attorney general — may ask a judge to order an individual to abide by release conditions if there are reasonable grounds to fear that person will commit a serious personal injury offence.
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Outside court Walsh, who did not attend Manyshots' brief court proceeding, said while such applications are common in her unit, they are generally rare.
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Manyshots was arrested under a peace bond warrant last week since his prison term was about to expire.
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He is in custody at the Calgary Remand Centre. If he refuses to enter into a peace bond, he could be ordered to remain behind bars.
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Manyshots, 46, and his younger brother Cody Manyshots, 41, were each handed the equivalent of 12-year prison terms in June 2018 after pleading guilty to charges of kidnapping, sexual assault causing bodily harm, robbery and uttering death threats.
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They abducted a 17-year-old Calgary girl off a residential street on Nov. 14, 2014, while she was waiting for a bus, took her to a nearby alley and sexually assaulted her.
