Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 1251

Imposing imprisonment or taking therapeutic measures, where addiction is established, by placement in one of the treatment institutions specified in Article 33/2 of Law 74 of 1983. Discretionary for the trial court. Its declining to order such placement. No defect. The rationale thereof: its imposition of the penalty in itself discloses its lack of conviction that the request for placement should be granted. - 339 - Criminal