Canadian Fishermen Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter After Lobster Trap Dispute Led to Man's Death
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [National Post] May 20, 2015
The captain of a lobster boat has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a man whose body has never been found off the coast of Cape Breton after he was shot at and dragged out to sea in what court documents describe as a simmering dispute over lobster traps.
Dwayne Matthew Samson of D’Escousse, N.S., was originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of Phillip Boudreau on June 1, 2013.
He was one of four people charged in the case...
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