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.)
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