A military jury sentenced Omar Khadr to 40 years behind bars Sunday, unaware that a plea deal had already capped the Toronto-born detainee's term to just one more year here before he can return to Canada.

The stiff but merely symbolic sentence ends an eight-year politically charged case that has divided Canadians and marks the first time in modern history that someone has been prosecuted for war crimes committed while a juvenile.

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