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Danny’s curls deserve their own credit and agent
Canada's top court has ruled that applying mandatory minimum sentences to the offence of child luring is unconstitutional, and such sentence
Canada’s top court has ruled that applying mandatory minimum sentences to the offence of child luring is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of Canada found in a six-to-one decision released Friday that such sentences violate the Charter-protected right that guards against “cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.” “The mandatory periods of incarceration apply to such an exceptionally wide scope of conduct that the result is grossly disproportionate punishments in reasonably foreseeable scenarios,” the ruling said.
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"Girl Stole Mail, Gets 3 Years "Travesty of Justice '--Crown," Toronto Star. January 13, 1943. Page 1. ---- "C" Police Court, City Hall; Magistrate Gullen. Up for sentence for stealing letters while a postal employee, Betty Welch, 22, was sentenced to three years.
Joseph Seugwick, defending, reiterated his argument of last week when accused pleaded guilty.
"You have the power to suspend sentence with the concurrence of the crown," said Mr. Sedgwick. "As a precedent for the exercise of that power, I cite the case of Rex vs. Percy Blackwell."
Magistrate Gullen said there was no record of what section the charge was laid under in that case about 20 years ago. It could not be ascertained or stated, he added, that the section was the same.
Magistrate Gullen said he had made up his mind in the matter.
"I think it is a travesty of justice if this woman goes to the penitentiary for three years," declared F. I. Malone, for the crown. "That is sticking to the letter of the law."
"I can not view this case as of such a trivial nature to allow suspended sentence," observed the court.
Imposing the sentence, he said he thought it should be a lesson to any others who might be so inclined.
Mr. Sedgwick threw his brief case and hat on the lawyer's table when of he heard accused's sentence. The young woman's mother collapsed.
[AL: The public and legal furor over this sentencing - theft of even a single postal letter meant a mandatory minimum three year term - was intense. The sentencing judge was chastised by other judges on the Toronto bench and at Osgoode Hall, and the Post Office Department (Canada Post) announced they would agitate for a reduction of sentence. No appeal was launched, however. Welch was prisoner #7189 at Kingston Penitentiary, held at the Prison for Women unit across the street. Sure enough, she was paroled in December 1943 after serving most of a year. The photos from her police file show (left) her arrest and detention photo and (right) her release photo from prison.]
"Girl Who Tampered With Mails To Serve Only Months, Not Years," Toronto Star. January 14, 1943. Page 1. ---- By H. R. ARMSTRONG
Ottawa, Jan. 14 - Postal authorities will arrange reduction of the prison term of the 22-year-old Betty Welch, Toronto girl who was sentenced to three years in Kingston penitentiary for theft of letters, it is officially stated here today.
Postal officials say action will be taken which will result in her serving months instead of years for her offence of taking letters containing money.
"Special circumstances" warrant such intervention, officials of the postal department stated.
"I think it is a travesty of justice if this woman goes to the penitentiary for three years," Crown Prosecutor F. L. Malone said in Toronto police court yesterday. He made this remark after Betty Welch was sentenced by Magistrate Gullen.
Cop Who Pinned Pregnant Woman & Tased Her Belly Gets A Month In Jail
he killed her baby he traumatized her and he only got one month in jail? America is so fucked up right now it doesn't even apply mandatory minimums to these white supremacist sentences
In a pair of split decisions, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered significant rulings on the use of mandatory minimum sentences in relation to three firearm related crimes Friday.
In a pair of split decisions Friday, the Supreme Court of Canada delivered significant rulings on the use of mandatory minimum sentences.
The top court said that in one case — which involved a person convicted of firing a gun into a building — the mandatory minimum sentence of four years was unconstitutional, even though that law has since been repealed.
In two other cases — which involve robberies with firearms — the top court concluded that mandatory minimum sentences are constitutional, regardless of whether the guns involved were prohibited weapons.
The ruling on the robbery cases comes only months after the mandatory four-year minimum sentence for using a legal firearm in a robbery was repealed by the Liberal government Nov. 17.
The mandatory minimum sentence of five years for committing a robbery with a prohibited firearm, which was not repealed, was deemed constitutional by the top court.
The Supreme Court also ruled that the use of hypothetical cases to test the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences should continue. [...]
The Conservatives said the Supreme Court's ruling "upheld common sense Conservative sentencing policy" implemented under former prime minister Stephen Harper.
"Trudeau repealed these sentencing laws in Bill C-5, claiming that these mandatory minimum sentences were unconstitutional," the Conservatives said in a media statement.
"The court's decision today shows that this is false, and the Liberals must take responsibility for their soft on crime policies that have unleashed a crime wave on Canada."
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