Federal prosecutors were in court Tuesday appealing the one-year jail term handed to a member of the Hells Angels who pleaded guilty to conspiracy

Federal prosecutors were in court Tuesday appealing the one-year jail term handed to a member of the Hells Angels who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in large quantities of methamphetamines and trafficking in cocaine.

Crown counsel Martha Devlin told a three-member panel of the B.C. Court of Appeal that B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask made four "serious errors" in principle in his sentencing of Randy Potts.

Devlin noted that the B.C. Court of Appeal had in August more than quadrupled the sentence that Leask had imposed on Potts' co-accused John Punko.

The prosecutor said Leask erred in his "piecemeal" approach to sentencing and failed to give enough weight to denunciation and deterrence. "The need for denunciation is particularly pressing in the context of selling vast amounts of drugs such as methamphetamines, which are addictive and recognized as dangerous drugs."



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