Adrianne DiSimoni

The offender, a 45-year-old first-time offender, pleaded guilty to sexual interference with an 8-year-old girl in a department store.

The Crown sought a jail sentence of 6-9 months followed by 3 years probation, emphasizing denunciation and deterrence.

The defence sought an 18-month conditional sentence order (CSO) followed by 3 years probation, arguing the offender's significant rehabilitation efforts and low risk of reoffending warranted community-based sentencing.

The court imposed an 18-month CSO with electronic monitoring and strict conditions, followed by 3 years probation, finding that the offender's genuine remorse, insight, participation in therapy, stable employment, and absence of aggravating factors made a CSO proportionate despite the seriousness of the offence and the need for denunciation and deterrence.

Corey Parnell was found guilty of dangerous driving and flight from police.

The court addressed the appropriate sentence and a Charter remedy for a two-day overhold in custody.

The Crown sought a custodial sentence of three to four months and a driving prohibition, while the defence sought a non-custodial sentence.

The court imposed a global custodial term of 120 days, reduced to 60 days as a remedy under s. 24(1) of the Charter for the overhold, and a two-year driving prohibition in addition to the custodial term.

Corey Parnell was charged with dangerous driving and flight from police.

He argued non-culpability due to police conduct and sought a stay of proceedings for unlawful pre-trial detention.

The court found him guilty of both charges, rejecting his defences of reasonable excuse and necessity.

While acknowledging a Charter breach for two days of unlawful pre-trial custody, the court declined to stay proceedings, finding an alternative remedy (sentence reduction) more appropriate and that the integrity of the justice system would not be harmed by continuing the trial, partly due to defence counsel's role in the communication breakdown.