R v Lloyd: BC Court of Appeal Declines to Declare Minimum Sentencing Legislation Invalid
At issue in R v Lloyd, 2014 BCCA 224 was whether section 5(3)(a)(i)(D) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, SC 1996, c 19 [CDSA] amounted to cruel and unusual punishment under section 12 of the Charter. Section 5(3)(a)(i) of the CDSA contemplates certain conditions whereby a sentencing judge must impose a mandatory minimum sentence […]