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Zambia: Drug trafficker gets 10 years NANCY SIAME Zambia Daily Mail Wednesday 25 Jun 2014 This is in a case in which Anthony Chipasha, 29, a peasant farmer of Nchelenge, was convicted of trafficking in marijuana by the subordinate court and sentenced to five years imprisonment with hard labour. Particulars of the offence are that Chipasha on November 11 last year in Nchelenge, trafficked in 1.2 grammes of marijuana, a herbal product of cannabis sativa without lawful authority. Chipasha pleaded guilty. But the State was dissatisfied with the judgment of the subordinate court and appealed to the High Court. The state argued that the trial court acted in excess of jurisdiction when it passed a sentence of 60 months on Chipasha. “The court below erred in law by sentencing the respondent herein a second offender to 60 months imprisonment with hard labour upon being convicted of the offence,” the appeal read in part. The State prayed that the 60-month sentence be quashed and an appropriate sentence befitting a second offender imposed Delivering judgment, Ndola High Court judge Petronella Ngulube sitting in Mansa recently, said the court below had no jurisdiction to sentence a repeat offender. “The court imposed a sentence that is way below the one prescribed by law,” Mrs Justice Ngulube said. She quashed the 60 months sentence imposed on Chipasha and replaced it with a 10-year jail term. “I quash the erroneous sentence from the court below, in its place I sentence the convict to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour,” Mrs Justice Ngulube said. http://www.daily-mail.co.zm/index.php/court-news/item/5337-drug-trafficker-gets-10-years
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