Uh, this is odd:
[quote=“Toronto Star: U.S. teacher exiled to Canada”]Legal experts on both sides of the border are scratching their heads after a U.S. judge told a Buffalo teacher convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl he could avoid a one-year jail sentence by accepting a three-year exile to Canada.
U.S. legal experts say it’s unprecedented, and probably legally impossible, for a U.S. judge to ban a U.S. citizen from American soil. And Canadian experts aren’t sure whether the teacher’s conviction in a U.S. court is enough to bar him from re-entering Canada.
The baffling case involves Malcolm Watson, a 35-year-old U.S. citizen who lives in Fort Erie, Ont., with his Canadian wife and three children, but who had been commuting to teach at the Buffalo Seminary, a private all-girls school in the Buffalo area.
Buffalo immigration lawyer Robert Kolken found the sentence, by Cheektowaga Justice Thomas Kolbert, “quite creative.”
But legal?
That’s another question.
“The real issue is whether it’s legal or not,” Kolken said from his home yesterday. “It’s unheard of to bar a U.S. citizen from his country,” Kolken said, wondering if it could be enforced.[/quote]
Creative? I suppose. But what makes the judge think Canada would want or welcome the bum? What’s next: get off by doing a stint in the army?