OMG I agree, AD. Seriously, you have to be tapped into a distribution network to get that kind of stuff - these are not your typical pot-and-pellet guns neighbourhood goonies.
You know it is bad luck to point out who is and isn't a gang member
http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/news/story/1.3098743
However it's of note that MWJ was arrested in Nov 2014 by the Guns and Gangs unit of TPS
http://www.annrbrocklehurst.com/201...k-smich-at-the-jane-and-finch-courthouse.html
DM knew DP from an earlier contact and you wonder if upon MWJ's earlier arrest, DM stepped forward to be a character witness/alibi for MWJ, thus first meeting DP. Ho, ho, ho, how that turned out, with DM insisting to DP that he's too posh to be a criminal as more and more charges fell upon him...
DM seems to have become particularly down, or off his chow at least, since MWJ was picked up on his latest charges.
Either way, MWJ has chosen a lawyer DP who admits "I focus on organized crime."
http://www.canindia.com/2014/03/def...onstitution-criminal-lawyer-deepak-paradkar/#
And of course MWJ has an Instagram and other social media accounts that proclaim his interests in cocaine, guns, gangland tattoos and objectifying women. MWJ sure wants people to think he's a gang member, based on that media, rather than not. What's with that?
In short, you need look no further for evidence of gangsters, or people whose activites and actions are so much like them they are mistaken for gangsters, than MWJ.
MS and DM are in turn long time associates of a gangster.
DM is also interested in drugs, guns, tattoos and objectifying women.
In fact DM and MWJ know each other so well that MWJ trusted DM enough to sell him a gun.
Now the question is, is DM being preyed upon and taken advantage of and used? Or is DM doing the things that he would have done anyway, under his own free will?
It's notable that DM killed the man "I loved most in the world, even more than myself"
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/201...didnt_kill_tim_bosma_exclusive_interview.html
He also killed his lover.
I don't think anyone influenced him in these self-interested acts. HOWEVER...
What if a gang had influenced DM in order to draw him into participating in the theft of TB's truck and TB's murder?
Even if DM was just along for the drive, I don't see how he is going to shake loose of a first degree murder charge.
You can argue you were compelled by others to kill in order to save your own life - and you will be found guilty of murder. It's no excuse.
So how does being drawn in by a gang help DM's case?
DM may have very well made some bad choices in life and gotten involved with the wrong people. HOWEVER...
That was DM's choice and the law sees no pity for him.
He's still guilty.