{"id":90773,"date":"2013-11-12T17:08:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T16:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ontario-court-mulls-constitutionality-of-gun-crime-minimum-sentences\/"},"modified":"2013-11-12T17:08:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T16:08:06","slug":"ontario-court-mulls-constitutionality-of-gun-crime-minimum-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/ontario-court-mulls-constitutionality-of-gun-crime-minimum-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario court mulls constitutionality of gun crime minimum sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrew Seymour<\/strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalpost.com\/2013\/11\/11\/ontario-court-to-rule-on-constitutionality-of-mandatory-minimums-for-gun-crimes-after-man-faced-three-years-in-jail-for-posing-with-firearm\/\">PostMedia News<\/a><br \/>November 12, 2013<\/p>\n<p>The case of a robber who ambushed employees of an Ottawa grocery store with a pellet gun is among six cases that will be decided Tuesday by Ontario&#8217;s Court of Appeal in what could be a landmark decision on the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes.<\/p>\n<p>The stakes are high for the Conservative government&#8217;s justice agenda, since a decision finding the sentences unconstitutional would effectively strike down the sentences in Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>But no matter what the Ontario appellate court decides, all roads lead to the Supreme Court of Canada, said Kent Roach, a University of Toronto professor.<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article was posted: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 10:55 am<\/p>\n<p>Tags: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/foreign-affairs\/\" rel=\"tag\">foreign affairs<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/tag\/gun-rights\/\" rel=\"tag\">gun rights<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<hr>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/ontario-court-mulls-constitutionality-of-gun-crime-minimum-sentences\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ontario court mulls constitutionality of gun crime minimum sentences\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew SeymourPostMedia NewsNovember 12, 2013 The case of a robber who ambushed employees of an Ottawa grocery store with a pellet gun is among six cases that will be decided Tuesday by Ontario&#8217;s Court of Appeal in what could be a landmark decision on the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes. The stakes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}