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.)