Finding the sentence of three years for trafficking 16 grammes of cannabis to have been unduly harsh, the Full Court yesterday imposed a one-year suspended sentence on Tabatinga youth, Shem Winter.
The 21-year-old was sentenced in December of last year and fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to the charge when he appeared before Magistrate Allan Wilson at the Lethem Magistrate’s Court.
Through attorney Jerome Khan, however, he subsequently filed an appeal to the Full Court, arguing that the sentence was unduly harsh, and that the Magistrate failed to apply Section 73(b) of the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, which includes provision for consideration of special reasons in determining a sentence.
