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R. v. Jones

Court Court of Appeal
Date 2003-04-30
Citation 2003 NSCA 48
Docket CAC 189642
Judge/Registrar/Adjudicator Bateman, Nancy J. (Honourable Justice) (CA); Hamilton, M. Jill (Honourable Justice); Roscoe, Elizabeth A. (Honourable Justice) (CA)
Document Type Library Sheet
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                                              NOVA SCOTIA COURT OF APPEAL

                                                Citation:  R. v. Jones, 2003 NSCA 48

 

                                                                                                                      Date: 20030430

                                                                                                                         Docket: CAC189642

                                                                                                                                Registry:  Halifax

 

 

Between:

                                                            Her Majesty the Queen

                                                                                                                                              Appellant

                                                                             v.

 

                                                                 David Bliss Jones

                                                                                                                                          Respondent

 

 

 

 

JUDGE:                                                          Roscoe, J.A.

 

APPEAL HEARD:                                         April 11, 2003

 

JUDGMENT DELIVERED:                        April 30, 2003

 

SUBJECT:                 CRIMINAL LAW, SENTENCING, POSSESSION OF CANNABIS RESIN FOR THE PURPOSES OF TRAFFICKING, POSSESSION OF PROCEEDS OF CRIME

 

SUMMARY:              The respondent, aged 41, with a criminal record of 11 prior offences, was sentenced to a conditional sentence of 18 months on charges of possession of 4.6 kilograms of cannabis resin and proceeds of crime in the amount of $40,020.  The Crown appealed.

 

ISSUE:                        Whether the sentence was fit in the circumstances.

 

RESULT:                   Appeal allowed. Sentence of three years incarceration substituted. In all the circumstances, including the previous record of the respondent and the commercial quantity of drugs, the sentence was unfit and outside the usual range.

 

 

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