Jamie Sarkonak: Supreme Court downplays ‘non-Indigenous legal traditions’ to enshrine sentencing circles
On Friday, in deciding the appeal of a part-Mi'kmaq man who brutally beat his Mi'kmaq girlfriend in the street, a majority of the Supreme Court of Canada declared that judges are now required to hear out what sentencing circles have to say in the sentencing of an Indigenous offender.
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