Larry Bagnell at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

On February 5th, 2007. See this statement in context.

February 5th, 2007 / 11:55 a.m.

Liberal

I have a short question.

You said you could regale us with cases. I'm wondering about the number of times this has come to court. You briefly mentioned this. With reference to the number of times the judge actually gave the maximum, did he give the allowable maximum of five years a high percentage of the time? If he didn't, if he never gave it, then how would they ever go to 10 years?

Second, were there any judgments in which the judge said he wished he had the ability to give a longer sentence but was constrained to five years?

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