CJ: Let’s have sentence range

Annoying.
That’s how Chief Justice Marston Gibson describes inconsistencies in court sentencing in Barbados.
He confessed his concern Monday night during the 19th Annual Louis A. Lynch Memorial Lecture at the Grand Salle Tom Adams Financial Centre.
“It can be a little galling when a magistrate in Bridgetown imposes one sentence and it is a custodial sentence and another magistrate in Holetown for example, says ‘Pay $50 and go home’,” the Chief Justice said.
Gibson said a “common yardstick” must be found for imposing sentences if magistrates and judges are to be seen as being guided by the same principles.
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