香港贩运毒品案的判监刑期, 是有案例指引的, 当中涉及法庭的酌情权方面的问题。 1.(a)大麻精的判刑指引: <2kg (公斤): 16个月以下 >2kg: 16 - 24个月 >3kg: 24 - 36个月 >6kg: 36 - 48个月 >9kg: 4年以上 (AG v Tuen Shui Ming[1995] HKCLR 129) 1.(b) 草本大麻的判刑指引: 量刑基准...
drugsassessmentresource药物sentencingfinal FINAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT – GUIDELINE ON DRUGS 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Sentencing Council was set up on 6 April 2010 as the new, independent body responsible for developing sentencing guidelines and promoting greater transparency and consistency in sentencing, whils...
Mr Chopsticks was pardoned by Sheikh Mohammed shortly after sentencing. Unknown what happened to the other druggie. An adviser with the Poppy Elimination Programme in Kandahar, Afghanistan, who was also a consultant with the UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC), copped a 4 year sentence in ...
America's "War on Drugs" has resulted in federal legislation and sentencing guidelines that provide harsh penalties for crimes involving both drugs and guns. In particular, Title 18, Section 924(c)(1)(A) of the United States Code, which applies specifically to guns in the context of drug-...
Discretion in drug enforcement and sentencing means prohibition is among theleading causes of incarceration of people of color in the United States– an injusticemany Americans on both sides of the aisleincreasingly recognize. Freed up from policing drug use, departments may redirect their resources to...
The Sentencing Project. Report of the sentencing project to the United Nations special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. 2018. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/. Accessed 21 Sept 2020. Shin...
Other countries have seen improvements through passing legal reforms, such as Singapore, who in 2013 passed a law allowing those facing the death penalty the opportunity to ask for resentencing, with nine prisoners applying having their sentences reduced to life imprisonment rather than death [30]....
Reprieve for Mum Who Smuggled Drugs into Jail ; Husband Took Drugs While Their Child Played Sentencing Guidelines Keep Her out of PrisonAMUM smuggled drugs to her jailbird husband when she took theirchild to see him behind...Osuh, Chris...