Michael Spratt, a criminal defence lawyer at Abergel Goldstein & Partners LLP in Ottawa (and columnist for Canadian Lawyer), says that
MMPs offer no incentive for those guilty of crimes to resolve charges, while at the same time they offer a perverse incentive for innocent people to plead guilty to lesser charges in order to avoid a higher minimum sentence.
that MMPs offer no incentive for those guilty of crimes to resolve charges, while at the same time they offer a perverse incentive for innocent people to plead guilty to lesser charges in order to avoid a higher minimum sentence.
Not exact matches
I don't know why but I've always wanted to have my own
MMP book, and the fact that Lulu.com now
offers this is a big selling point for me.
This is not too surprising, since the growth of e-books is most likely to impact sales of mass - market paperbacks, as
MMPs are the least expensive print
offering, their release is delayed after hardcovers (as some publishers do with e-books), and most closely filled the role that e-books are starting to fill for people: day - to - day fiction reading, as opposed to hardcover cookbooks, graphic books, or bookshelf display items.