An Ontario judge has sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic a firearm to two years less a day under house arrest, citing previous rulings that found the three-year mandatory minimum unconstitutional.
Emerson Wright, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiring with his childhood friend, Dylan Crawford, to traffic a firearm, according to an Aug. 11 decision by Ontario Superior Court Justice Kelly Tranquilli. Wright had been charged with conspiring to traffic firearms and possessing a firearm for the purpose of transferring it while knowingly not being authorized to do so.
“Trafficking in a firearm carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of three years for a first offence,” Tranquilli wrote in her decision. “However, this mandatory minimum sentence has been declared unconstitutional.” …