Sentencing arguments were heard Tuesday in a former Montreal police officer’s assault case.

Stefanie Trudeau, also known as Agent 728, faces a maximum of six months in jail and/or a $5,000 fine because the matter is being handled as a summary judgment instead of a criminal trial.

The Crown is seeking a suspended sentence of 12 months. The defence is demanding absolution, meaning she would not have a criminal record.

The judge will render a decision on Thursday.

Trudeau gained notoriety in October 2012 when she arrested one man drinking beer at the front door of his apartment as protesters walked down the street.

She entered the apartment to confront the beer drinker, Rudi Occhietti, and then placed another man, Serge Lavoie, in a chokehold and dragged him down a flight a stairs.

Occhietti, Lavoie, Simon Pagé and Karen Molina were arrested that night and charged with assault, obstruction and intimidation.

However unbeknownst to Trudeau, one of the cellphones she confiscated was recording the confrontation. That recording showed Trudeau telling her supervisor that she was arresting "rats" and calling the red square protesters, who were marching through the streets of Montreal night after night to protest tuition increases, a bunch of "s*** eaters."

Two weeks after the incident the charges against the three men and the one woman were dropped, and Trudeau was suspended with pay. Eighteen months later she was charged with assault.

Other videos came to light showing Trudeau pepper-spraying a crowd of protesters, although the Crown decided not to press charges for that incident. She was also charged in a separate matter of threatening members of the police union.

In February of this year a judge ruled the attack on Lavoie was an excessive use of force.

Trudeau has since left the Montreal police force on a permanent disability pension.