A Serious Blow to the Conservative Government’s Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Policies
On behalf of Neuberger & Partners LLP posted in Uncategorized on Friday December 14, 2012.
In a bold and admirable ruling, Justice Anne Molloy of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the mandatory three year jail term that was a result of the Conservative government's 2008 Tackling Violent Crime Act, declaring that to impose a three-year jail sentence for Mr. Leroy Smickle would be "fundamentally unfair, outrageous, abhorrent, and intolerable." Mr. Smickle was sitting in his underwear on a couch in his cousin's apartment...
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