#lenient sentencing

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"MAN PLEADS IN VAIN FOR LONG SENTENCE," Montreal Star. July 6, 1934. Page 3. --- Offences Do Not Call For Penitentiary --- Judge J. A. Dubeau, in the police court today, was obliged to refuse the request of Robert Lemesurier, 23, that he be given a heavier sentence so that he could go to St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary rather than Montreal jail in order that he could continue his hospital work and continue studying French.

Lemesurier, who was given a term of nine months yesterday on a charge of breaking and entering with theft, had pleaded guilty to an additional charge of possession of drugs for which he was sentenced today by Judge Dubeau to six months in jail and a fine of $200 and costs or an additional six months.

His Honor could not accede to the request of the prisoner because the law covering the offence he committed does not carry a sentence heavy enough to require his stay in the penitentiary. He needed a two-year sentence to go to St. Vincent de Paul.

George Gagnon, 26, 2092 Bordeaux street, who was sentenced yesterday by Judge Monet to three years in the penitentiary on a charge of attempted theft from the person of a 60-year-old woman, was given an additional term of two years today on a similar charge by the same judge.

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"Pâques et le bébé de vingt-trois jours," La Patrie. April 21, 1943. Page 2. --- Emilien Rondeau, accusé d'avoir volé des cigarettes pour une valeur de $6.40 dans un entrepôt du C.N.R. pourra passer les fêtes de Pâques dans sa famille, grâce au juge Théberge qui a bien voulu remettre au 18 mai prochain la sentence qu'il devait prononcer contre l'accusé, lequel s'avoua coupable.

Rondeau est le père d'un fils de 23 jours et c'est afin de lui permettre de passer quelques semaines avec les siens qu'il obtint cette faveur.

Le juge Théberge a également rendu jugement dans la cause d'Albert Deslauriers, 4689 Resther, accusé de pratique illégale de la médecine. "Le prévenu, dit le tribunal, tenta de se défendre, mais ne réussit qu'à se condamner lui-même". Amende de $50 et les frais ou 2 mois de prison.

Mile M. Sullivan, accusée d'avoir violé la loi des conventions collectives, fut acquittée, faute de preuves, par le juge R. Théberge.

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"Too Many M.P.'s And Clerks Intervene," Ottawa Journal. April 7, 1943. Page 4. ---- MONTREAL, April 7. (CP). Judge Amedee Monet said today that too many persons are likely to intervene on behalf of the prisoner when a long penitentiary term is given a convicted man.

Judge Monet made his comment in sentencing Max Dortman to two years in penitentiary on a charge of conspiracy, after the Crown prosecutor had asked that a three-year sentence be imposed.

"My experience on the bench has taught me that it is always better not to give long terms in the penitentiary", he said, "because there are always Members of Parliament, petty clerks and even, much as I hate to admit it, members of the clergy who intervene in favor of the prisoners to use their influence to favor the accused."

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"MAN BLAMES MOTHER FOR HIS DOWNFALL," Montreal Star. August 4, 1933. Page 3. ---- With tears in his eyes, Philip Goldberg pleaded with Judge Marin this morning for leniency when found guilty of the theft of a silk dress worth $8. He said that he had never had a chance in the world and that he had been unfairly dealt with by the community in general and his own mother in particular. When the judge read out his long record of crime which began with a theft in 1926, that resulted in a sentence of two years in the penitentiary and was followed later with a sentence of three years for burglary, Goldberg did not altogether agree with the accuracy of the record. When the judge mentioned a sentence for having been in possession of drugs, Goldberg said that his mother had put him in jail on that charge. The judge sentenced him to one month in jail.

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“INSISTED UPON PRISON TERMS,” Kingston Whig-Standard. October 31, 1932. Page 1. --- Attorney-General Opposed Suspended Sentence for North Bay Men --- NORTH BAY, Oct. 31— Sentences of two months each to the Ontario Reformatory were meted out to John and Henry Levis of Sturgeon Falls and William Dunbar and Edward Fuette of the same town were sentenced to one month each to the same institution, when the quartette appeared before Judge H. D. Leask to district criminal court today tor sentence, following their conviction on Oct. 19 of obtaining money by false pretences from the Department of Northern Development. Sentences were imposed after the Crown-Attorney, T. E. MacNee announced that he had received word from the Attorney-General Department that it was not desirable that he assent to the men being given suspended sentence as Judge Leask had suggested. The Judge had termed the act of the four accused as "more foolish than criminal” on finding them guilty. 

The offence consisted of putting a man on the payroll to order to get the cost of repairing a car.