From: johnturmel@yahoo.com   
      
   JCT: No kidding. Adrian Stuerm was jailed for growing 65   
   plants in his garage to the mandatory minimum 6 months.   
      
   In Ontario, he'd have asked for an Inmate Appeal form, filled   
   it out, given it to the warden and it would have been   
   transmitted to the Ontario Court of Appeal.   
      
   When Adrian got into jail on Thursday May 10, he was told they   
   have no Inmate Appeal forms. So his wife had to bring some   
   paper forms in for him to sign. The prison faxed it off to the   
   Court of Appeal who don't accept documents by fax, he had to   
   serve it himself, breakout maybe?, but they never bothered   
   telling him, just let the date of the hearing slide past.   
      
   I'd told him to mail out a copy to his wife in case there was   
   some impediment but he couldn't buy envelope and stamps at the   
   canteen until Friday! So it was mailed Friday. Or at least   
   handed in to the guards on Friday. Whether it made the mail on   
   Friday or Monday, we'll find out when his wife gets them.   
      
   Then they'll be filed for hearing "so soon thereafter (last   
   Friday) as can be heard the motion by telephone.   
      
   It certainly seems like his S.15 right to equal treatment   
   under the law has been violated, doesn't it? An Ontario inmate   
   would have probably been out on May 15, two weeks ago. Warden   
   transmits it Thursday, Friday and Monday are 2 clear days and   
   the hearing is on Tuesday May 15.   
      
   So he spent an extra two weeks so far in jail because the   
   Quebec system doesn't offer the equal treatment under the law   
   that an Ontario inmate gets. Right? '   
      
   May be worth a complaint to someone once he's out.   
      
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