LAWS 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Royal Irish Constabulary, Early Modern Europe, Criminal Records Act
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The harper gov"t more mandatory minimums, larger mandatory minimums. 1892 stealing mail = 3 years. 1921 auto theft = 1 year. 1922 drug offences = 6 months. 1961 drugs, importing or exporting = 7 years. 1995 various firearms offences = 4 years. Supreme court ruling in r v. lloyd [2016] Mandatory minimum = 1 year: trafficking or possession in order to traffic. 3 kilos of marijuana: convicted for drug crime in past decade, possibility of joining certain rehab programs instead of mandatory minimum. Jurisprudential tests grossly disproportionate ; so excessive as to outrage standards of decency : acceptable mandatory minimums the kind that judges can override in exceptional cases, with. Canadian sensibilities regarding discretion in the 2nd half of the 20th c. After wwii stronger belief in clear, well-defined procedure in criminal justice: carolyn strange on corporal punishment, doubts about clemency decisions concerning death penalty makes abolition more appealing. Shifting from juvenile delinquents act to young offenders act.
