According to Sally Howard, professor at the University of Lethbridge, Justice Nobel (the first trial judge) demonstrates how judgments dealing with illegal acts against imperfect or deficient bodies can be reclassified as positive and applied. narrow views of what it means to be disabled. In his findings, the judge repeatedly defined Robert Latimer's actions as "mercy killing" and "mercy killing", simultaneously associating the words intended for heroes and leaders with the action of taking life, and this is directly related to the way Latimer described his daughter in trial and the unique image of disabled people that the court held. Tracy was portrayed as disfigured, in constant pain, and bedridden (unproductive), and this unique story feeds and finds legitimacy in the stereotype that physically and mentally disabled people are "basically or almost dead", which, according to Howard, reminiscent of biological positivism. , to the extent that the disabled constitute a sect of society characterized as inferior and useless due to physical abnormalities. It is for this reason that Judge Nobel considered