Sandra Bergen, a 19 year old from Biggar, Sask., had a heart attack in 2004 that left her in a comma for 11 days.
She still suffers from fatigue and a heart condition that makes childbearing risky.
The cause?
Overdose on crystal methamphetamine.
She’s now suing the person who sold her the drugs, because he was acting,
for the purpose of making money but was also for the purpose of intentionally inflicting physical and mental suffering…”
She claims that the man, a former childhood friend from kindergarden, intentionally sold her the drugs to get her addicted. She’s not happy with the toy he shared in adulthood, or satisfied with the punishment afforded in the criminal courts.
Instead, she has decided to seek a civil remedy.
Berger has stated,
It’s a precedent-setting lawsuit and I’m really happy. Now drug dealers can be held liable in that they could lose all their assets and all the money they make from selling drugs.
The Drug Dealers’ Union of Saskatchewan was unavailable for comment.
Thanks to Ahmed Hussen of UofO Law for the heads up.
The drug dealer should’ve put a warning label on the crystal meth packages he was selling. That way his lawyer can say he warned his customer of the health effects, kinda like cigarrettes and alcohol.
WARNING: USING CRYSTAL METH MAY RESULT IN HEALTH PROBLEMS SUCH AS, OVERDOSE, PREGANCY COMPLICATIONS, AND F*CKED UP METH MOUTH.
Just sayin’.
At some point in time, you will get tired of posting articles about absurd and frivolous torts, and get down to real Canadian law of various disciplines. Let me start by stating an obvious and very serious Canadian problem in Criminal Law.
The entire Canadian Bar has been troubled recently by a significant number of capital offenses which were reversed by latter day DNA evidence. Morin is a typical example, a man convicted of murder. But was he? Well, no, not exactly. In fact, he, like many others, was found not guilty by a jury. Now, students, it becomes interesting! He was convicted on an appeal by the Crown! So what, you say? Well, the so what is that you have been lied to or deceived by your law professors, who have represented such criminal appeals as routine. And where are they routine, or even legal you ask? Why only in Canada, pity!
Yes my friends, in all of the other English speaking countries in the world, it is not legal for the government to appeal a jury acquittal in a criminal case. Not in Britain, in the U.S., in Australia, in New Zealand, in Ireland, etc. How can this be, you ask, our law came from England! Well, yes, some of it did. But you see, like “American Cowboy†justice, we have something even worse, which might be termed “Canadian Colonial†justice. Just like our colonial thug-like lawyers aligned themselves with the “Family Compact†oligarchy in Toronto’s early days, so they were willing to play fast and loose with criminal law.
Now, your professors will absolutely lie to you in this regard. They will offer preposterous rationalizations, to the effect that the defense can appeal, so why not the Crown? Such an argument is ludicrous! These are not civil actions my friends, where the parties can, at least theoretically, be equal. No, this is the staggering power and resources of the Crown against a simple citizen. They have the power to, quite literally, persecute the citizen until hell won’t have it! And, of course, this is exactly what has happened in the case of Morin and many in similar situations. Meanwhile, the Bar sits back and hand wrings and asks what has gone wrong?
“Canadian Colonial Justice†is what has gone wrong! But, by friends, this will be denied, and denied, and denied, by your professors. Ask them where such concepts came from? They did not come from England, or the U.S., or Australia, etc. Why, my friends, they came from early, un-schooled Canadian hacks, calling themselves lawyers and trying to gain influence and preferment with the grotesque, appointed British Colonial aristocracy which controlled the early Canada. The very appointed aristocracy which had been sent packing by the British Colonies now known as the U.S. The fawning, half-educated, shyster scum which gave us such criminal law procedures are the people you will be required to emulate! Once, again, you will be lied to and deceived! Think about it my friends
Pat West, Sc.D.!