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Nov 4, 2022 · In 2015, Cheyenne Sharma, arrived in Toronto on an international flight with almost two kilograms of cocaine in her suitcase. The 20-year-old woman with no criminal record confessed to the RCMP that her partner had promised her $20,000 to bring the suitcase to Canada.
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Cheyenne Sharma is a young Indigenous woman, an intergenerational residential school survivor, and a single mother. Facing financial hardship and the potential of eviction for her and her two-year-old daughter, Ms. Sharma acted as a drug courier and imported 2 kg of cocaine into Canada. She was convicted of importing drugs. As an Indigenous person,...
Before the Ontario Court of Appeal, LEAF and the Asper Centre highlighted how systems of discrimination based on gender, race, socio-economic status, and colonialism shape the experiences of criminalized Indigenous women in the Canadian criminal justice system. By magnifying the very injustices that the Gladue framework is intended to redress, the ...
The Ontario Court of Appeal’s majority decision found that the provisions were unconstitutional. A majority of the Supreme Court of Canada, however, disagreed. The majority found that Ms. Sharma’s s. 15 rights had not been violated, and upheld the provisions as constitutional. Shortly after the decision, the federal government passed Bill C-5, An A...
Mar 16, 2021 · Factual and Procedural Background. Amidst these legislative reforms is the litigant of this case, Cheyenne Sharma. At the time of the offence, she was 20-year-old woman and a single mother of a daughter. She is of Ojibwe ancestry and a Saugeen First Nation member.
Jul 28, 2020 · In R. v. Sharma, Cheyenne Sharma was convicted after pleading guilty to importing a large quantity of cocaine from South America. On appeal, Sharma argued the laws denying her access to a conditional sentence were counter to her rights under s. 7 and s. 15 of the Charter.
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Oct 14, 2020 · Cheyenne Sharma. (Ontario) (Criminal) (By Leave) Judgments on applications for leave to appeal are rendered by the Court, but are not necessarily unanimous. Date modified: 2018-05-04.
Nov 3, 2022 · The ruling stems from the 2016 case of Cheyenne Sharma, a young Indigenous woman who pleaded guilty to importing two kilograms of cocaine in exchange for $20,000 from her boyfriend — a task she...
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Cheyenne Sharma. The decision comes in the case of Cheyenne Sharma, a young Indigenous woman who pleaded guilty in 2016 to importing two kilograms of cocaine in exchange for $20,000 from her boyfriend, a task she carried out to avoid eviction for herself and her daughter.
