R. v. Latimer: Minimum Mandatory Sentences

April 14th, 2000

R. v. Latimer , [2001] 1 S.C.R. 3, in which one of the issues was whether the Criminal Code provision for a mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment for second degree murder constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under section 12 of the Charter (the CCLA intervened in the Supreme Court of Canada);