A Saskatoon man who shot a rival gang member inside a car in 2018 has received the same sentence for second-degree murder that a judge handed him the first time he was convicted.

Brandin Brick, 33, was found guilty in 2020 of killing James Chaisson, 28, but filed an appeal of his trial's outcome, eventually convincing the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal to order a new trial.

The second trial also ended in a conviction.

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Second-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison with no chance of parole for at least 10 years. Brick's original sentence set his parole ineligibility at 12 years, but the Crown argued that was an unfit sentence and said his parole ineligibility should be increased to 21 years.

Brick's defence l

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