Analysis: Appeal court panel forced to revisit sentencing range after intervention by multiple interest groups.
failed to stem the burgeoning deaths from toxic drugs and has wrought injustice — imprisoning homeless women, an ailing 50-plus man requiring weekly dialysis, a 19-year-old without a record supported by his family …Sign up to know what's really happening by reading daily editorials and commentary by British Columbia's opinion leadersBy clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
It does not prevent people from using or selling drugs, he added, and the post-release period is one of the greatest risks of overdose because people have lost their tolerance. “Jail sentences and the involvement of the criminal justice system have not been effective in stemming the flood of fentanyl in the drug supply and the increasing number of overdose deaths involving this drug,”She suspended sentence and placed Ellis on 12 months of probation instead of the three-year prison sentence sought by the prosecutor.
Justice David Harris concurred, saying the risks posed by illicit fentanyl “justify a recognition of a very substantial increase in the sentencing range applicable to street-level dealing in fentanyl.” Now the court would like to claim there has been a fundamental shift in society’s understanding of drug addiction and street-level trafficking that doesn’t require jailing offenders?
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