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Marijuana Farm Gets Man 12-Month Term!
Posted by FoM on July 10, 1999 at 11:04:51 PT
By Don Murray -- Free Press Court Reporter
Source: The London Free Press
A London man who said he won't stop trying to turn his life around was sentenced yesterday to 12 months in jail on a drug charge. 
Vincent Scott Kelly, 31, pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking in the wake of a raid that turned up a marijuana farm in his Downey Crescent basement last year. Federal prosecutor Bill Buchner said the Aug. 4 raid found two marijuana growing operations totalling 120 plants and a lab set up for making hashish. Other amounts of drugs were found in various containers in other parts of the house. Buchner said the potential street value of the plants was $60,000, a figure defence lawyer Peter Behr disputed. That value "assumes perfection" of the crop, he said. The 666 grams of hash found were valued at between $4,500 and $10,000. Behr said the Newfoundland-born labourer has been in a 10-year common-law relationship that has produced two children. Kelly has been diligently seeking and receiving help for some mental health problems, including depression and anger management, said Behr. Buchner said those efforts are why he joined Behr in recommending a 12-month sentence. "He has tried hard to deal with his personal problems," said Buchner. "Those efforts have earned him a lower sentence than I would normally have asked for." Kelly, who has a prior record, told Superior Court Justice Eileen Gillese: "I'm trying to turn my life around and I'm not going to give up." The judge said she was helped in her decision by a number of letters "saying you are trying hard." But, she warned Kelly, "Do it again and there's no way you get 12 months." Other charges against Kelly and a co-accused were withdrawn. Pubdate: July 10, 1999 http://www.canoe.ca/LondonNews/06_n1.html
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