Supreme Court rules mandatory firearm sentence unconstitutional

Treatment Centre and had not come to adverse Garda attention in the interim. The suspension was imposed on the basis of the “last chance” principle.

Ellis had separately brought a civil challenge to the constitutionality of section 27A. That section provides for a mandatory minimum five year sentence for certain persons convicted under section 27.

She stressed the Supreme Court was not asked to consider in this appeal any form of legislation which falls short of excluding a court’s entitlement to depart, in any way, from the sentence specified by law.

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