SaskatoonBrandin Brick’s sentence for second-degree murder will remain the same as it was the first time he was convicted, a Saskatoon judge decided.Brandin Brick gets life in prison with no parole for 12 yearsHannah Spray · CBC News · Posted: Nov 21, 2025 4:30 PM EST | Last Updated: 4 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.After being convicted a second time of the same offence, Brandin Brick will be eligible for parole in 2030. A judge decided his second-degree murder sentence will be life in prison with no chance of parole for 12 years. (Saskatoon Police Service)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.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 lawyer Chris Murphy called that a “luxury tax” on someone “who successfully appealed and is now coming back and getting convicted of the exact same offence.”Justice Timothy Keene agreed with the defence.”I do not find that [the first judge’s] decision was unfit, and … I conclude that I should sentence Mr. Brick in the same fashion,” he wrote. “However, I do not wish to be seen as simply rubberstamping [the first] decision here.”The 12-year ineligibility period fits with recent case law on “callous gun violence resulting in death,” Keene said.Brick killed Chaisson inside a car near a 7-Eleven on Valentine’s Day in 2018 by shooting him with a sawed-off .22 rifle. They were members of rival gangs.The period of parole ineligibility is calculated from the date of arrest, which was Feb. 17, 2018. That means Brick would be eligible for parole on Feb. 17, 2030.ABOUT THE AUTHORHannah Spray is a reporter and editor for CBC Saskatoon. She began her journalism career in newspapers, first in her hometown of Meadow Lake, Sask., moving on to Fort St. John, B.C., and then to the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
Sentence stays the same after retrial, 2nd conviction for Saskatoon murderer
