In our brief we cite several of the studies: one that was already mentioned by my friend, by Doob and Webster; there's another one, Doob and Cesaroni; there are several by Julian Roberts. There are several that are cited in our brief as well.
In addition, when this law was originally discussed, the Minister of Justice referred to four states in particular that had had mandatory minimums that had been successful. Despite written requests from our office to his office, we're not sure exactly which studies he referred to, especially in the case of New York.
In the Virginia study, there were actually three different things that had happened in Virginia, so it would be very difficult to pinpoint that mandatory minimums themselves were responsible for the reduction in crime. As I said, there were three different elements.
In Florida, for example, the legislative summary that was distributed actually concedes that there's no evidence that crimes were reduced by the efforts taken in Florida.
So even some of the statements that have been made saying these four states were successful once they implemented mandatory minimums are questionable.