Elvert Mark McFarlane and Leon Isaac Ramoon
Social inquiry reports and medical information indicated that Ramoon was mentally impaired, while McFarlane was mentally ill.
McFarlane, 21, was of normal functioning, the magistrate summarised. But he had been diagnosed as manic–depressive; when depressed he got upset and violent.
He was before the court for assault causing actual bodily harm in addition to two charges of supplying cocaine to an undercover police officer.
The supply took place on two successive days in September 2005. Both times the officer paid McFarlane $25 for a rock quantity at a location in East End. McFarlane pleaded guilty.
She said two things concerned her – McFarlane’s mental illness that needed to be treated and his propensity for violence. Local hospital facilities were not appropriate for his situation.
For other charges, including the assault and a failure to provide a specimen, the magistrate imposed concurrent sentences.For offences involving the taking of 17 lobsters on one day, being more than the limit of five and during closed season, the sentence was six months consecutive.
Ramoon, also 21, had pleaded not guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to supply. Police officers testified that they saw him place a small object in the gas tank area of a vehicle parked outside a bar. After speaking to him about it they recovered the object, which proved to contain cocaine.The magistrate found him guilty.
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