A debt owed to a Canadian resident by a man who assaulted him outside a Syracuse bar is nondischargeable under Title 11 of the federal Bankruptcy Code, a judge found.
James Boutin was convicted in state criminal court of inflicting a willful and malicious injury on Darren Ladouceur in a 2009 altercation. As such, Northern District Bankruptcy Judge Margaret Cangilos-Ruiz said 11 U.S.C. §523(a)(6) expressly prohibits Boutin from discharging any debt that he owes as the result of his crime in his Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding.
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