CROWN DELAYS POT CAFE OWNER'S SENTENCING

The woman who owned a local pot cafe that explicitly sold marijuana
will have to wait at least another 10 days to discover her fate.

Carol Gwilt, 39, owned the Da Kine Cafe on Commercial Drive when it
was busted in a large police raid in September 2004.

She was to have been sentenced yesterday on various possession
charges, but Crown lawyer Paul Riley was granted an adjournment to
deal with last-minute matters.

Gwilt will now return to court next Friday, where both Crown and
defence lawyer Jason Gratl are expected to make a joint submission on
her sentence.

In court yesterday, Gratl suggested Da Kine had enjoyed eight months
of "community acquiescence" from city hall and Vancouver residents
before it was busted. Riley, however, called that irrelevant.

"I don't view any of these circumstances as being relevant at all to
the sentencing," he told B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Wedge.