To: Broken_Clock who wrote (395434 ) 10/7/2009 1:25:37 PM From: average joe 1 Recommendation Respond to of 436258 Canadian cops kill with impunity yet a father protecting his daughter rots in jail. Yorkton father-turned-killer Kim Walker appealing murder conviction in Regina Leader-Post staff REGINA — A Yorkton father-turned-killer who sparked a national debate in gunning down a young man supplying drugs to his teenage daughter is in a Regina courtroom today, hoping to appeal his murder conviction. Kim Joseph Walker, 52, is serving a life sentence in Prince's Albert Saskatchewan Penitentiary for the second-degree murder of James William Hayward. He is not eligible for parole until 2017. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal is hearing Walker's case today in Regina. A Yorkton jury convicted Walker of murder in January 2007 after an emotional trial that gripped the attention of Yorkton and southern Saskatchewan. The jury learned Walker, armed with a semi-automatic pistol and 30 rounds of ammunition, went to Hayward's home on March 17, 2003, to retrieve his then 16-year-old daughter Jadah, a morphine addict who was living with Hayward, a former award-winning bodybuilder also struggling with drug addiction. During the confrontation, Walker fired 10 shots, hitting Hayward at least five times, including once in the back, in front of Jadah and other witnesses. Walker's defence was that he was a father of three at his wit's end, trying to free his then teenage daughter from the grips of Hayward, a convicted drug trafficker. Since filing his appeal, Walker has asked the Court of Appeal to release him on bail on two different occasions. The Court of Appeal denied him his freedom both times. Check back later for updates ... © Copyright (c) The Regina Leader-Postleaderpost.com