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MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES – ““Mandatory minimums are being struck down on an ad hoc basis, province to province,” It has reached the point that neither lawyers nor Judges know which mandatory minimum sentences have been struck down and where.

Posted byDennis Reeve 5 February 20215 February 2021
Clocks and clock hands that is pulled / twisted out of a regular shape
https://www.nationalmagazine.ca/en-ca/articles/law/rule-of-law/2021/canadas-web-of-mandatory-minimum-sentences
Posted byDennis Reeve5 February 20215 February 2021Posted inUncategorized

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