The Perfect Storm: Section 12, Mandatory Minimum Sentences and the Problem of the Unusual Case

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  • Peter Sankoff University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21991/C9SM22

Abstract

In Wolfgang Peterson’s enjoyable 2000 film, The Perfect Storm, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg as fisherman in a doomed struggle against Mother Nature, a wonderful scene shows a local weatherman/meteorologist, flushed with excitement, outlining the details of an incoming mega-storm to a member of the newsroom:

Author Biography

Peter Sankoff, University of Alberta

Professor, Faculty of Law

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Published

2013-04-25

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