Pubdate: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 Source: Edmonton Sun (CN AB) Copyright: 2007 Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: http://www.edmontonsun.com Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/135 Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1370/a01.html Author: Dennis Petruk Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk. SENTENCE BASED ON BEHAVIOUR Re: Tuesday column by Mindelle Jacobs. Is she serious? Or better still, is UCLA professor Mark Kleiman serious? Are we to believe that a drug dealer's sentence should be based on his behaviour? So if he comes to court with a nice haircut (one year off his sentence), a nice suit (two years off), expresses himself well (another two years off) and gets triple time off for time spent in pre-trial custody, the Crown will owe him three years and he'll sue for wrongful incarceration. Justice in Canada. Dennis Petruk (Kleiman was speaking of a dealer's community behaviour.) - --- MAP posted-by: Richard Lake