The appellant, Bradley Munroe, appealed his convictions for arranging to commit sexual assault (believed victim under 16) and distributing child pornography, as well as his global sentence of 66 months.
On conviction, he raised issues of entrapment, lack of warrant for Facebook records, failure to prove complainant age, and ineffective trial counsel.
The Court of Appeal found no merit in these assertions, noting the careful guilty plea inquiry by the trial judge.
On sentence, the appellant argued insufficient credit for harsh pre-sentence custody conditions.
The Court found the trial judge properly applied principles from R. v. Marshall, treating the conditions as a strong mitigating factor, and that the sentence was fit.
The appeal was dismissed on all grounds, and the Criminal Code s. 161 order was upheld.
