Lawyers for a teen guilty of stabbing a man to death for no known reason, just hours after they met, are urging a judge to sentence him to no more time behind bars.

“No one benefits when we compound the tragedy of a crime by throwing away the life of a child in the name of retribution,” defence lawyer Kaitlynn Porath told King’s Bench Justice Candace Grammond at a day-long sentencing hearing Wednesday.

“No matter how serious a crime they commit, we can never lose sight of a young person’s potential for rehabilitation,” Porath said.

The now 19-year-old man was found guilty last year of second-degree murder in the September 2022 killing of 26-year-old Dakota Beardy.

Beardy was found in the basement of a Maples home suffering from multiple stab wounds and other injuries before being rushe

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