Canada Case Law

R. v. Picard

Court

Supreme Court of British Columbia

The court upheld the one-year mandatory minimum under s. 7(2)(b)(iii) of the CDSA, rejected the s. 12 Charter challenge, and imposed the minimum sentence.

• Mandatory minimum sentences
• Section 12 charter cruel and unusual punishment
• Controlled drugs and substances act s.7
• Conditional sentence availability
• Reasonable hypothetical analysis
• Mandatory-minimum-sentences

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