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It turns out shooting at police officers to avoid arrest is not necessarily attempted murder.

Nor will it automatically result in serious prison time.

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This came to light Friday when a judge found Peter Aiken, 27, fired an illegal handgun five times at two Peel Regional Police officers in 2016 and imposed a sentence that could see the man free in a year.

Aiken was wounded by police. The officers were not injured.

While Aiken was convicted of weapons charges, including intentionally discharging a firearm, Justice Paul Currie acquitted him of two counts of attempted murder.

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Needless to say the sentence was not sitting well with Peel’s new police chief, Nishan Duraiappah, and the president of the Peel Regional Police Association, Adrian Woolley.

“One week in, and I can’t tell you how shameful I felt for those coppers,” Duraiappah told the Toronto Sun. “It’s hard to rationalize.”

It really is.