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The Globe and Mail: Judges must consider history when sentencing aboriginals, Supreme Court rules

Mar 23, 2012

Releasing rulings in a pair of much-anticipated cases that go to the heart of separate treatment for aboriginal offenders, the Supreme Court of Canada said considering factors such as cultural oppression and a history of abuse in the residential school system must be central to the sentencing process.

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