B.C. Court of Appeal case spurs harsher sentences for fentanyl dealers
Friday, March 17, 2017 @ 1:42 PM | By Amanda Jerome
After hearing the case of R. v. Smith 2017 BCCA 112 on March 10, British Columbia’s Court of Appeal has decided that stricter sentences are in order for fentanyl dealers due to the health care crisis the drug has wrought.
“The continuing escalation in the number of fentanyl-detected deaths, the enormity of the total numbers of accidental overdosing, the increasing percentage of fentanyl detected deaths as a proportion of the total, and the currently ubiquitous awareness of the risks posed by illicit fentanyl, in combination,...
“The continuing escalation in the number of fentanyl-detected deaths, the enormity of the total numbers of accidental overdosing, the increasing percentage of fentanyl detected deaths as a proportion of the total, and the currently ubiquitous awareness of the risks posed by illicit fentanyl, in combination,...
