Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Leniency

Conditional Sentences Dept: This appears to be the kind of judicial leniency that incites federal Tory tough-on-crime crusaders and drives demands for more mandatory minimum sentences. But in reality it exposes important nuances involved in legal decision-making that get lost in public policy debates based on bumper-sticker slogans, according to Vancouver Sun. He recently handed conditional sentences to two 21-year-olds involved in the violent bloody ambush on the west coast of Vancouver Island and two thugs knife a teenager and brutally beat him nearly to death with a baseball bat before robbing him in a planned bushwhacking and they get probation? At first blush, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Selwyn Romilly seems to have placed far too much weight on com-passionate considerations and far too little on societal concerns for denunciation and deterrence. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.