Carime Lane Boehr

The court sentenced an accused who pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 committed through a workplace breach of trust involving 21 fraudulent cheques totaling $50,308.98.

Applying proportionality, parity, denunciation, deterrence, and rehabilitation, the court treated repeated transactions, prior similar record, and business harm as aggravating, while crediting an early guilty plea, remorse, family support, employment, and sustained addiction recovery efforts.

The court found some unfairness in the charging timeline but held that post-plea fraudulent conduct still required a meaningful sanction.

A six-month conditional sentence was imposed to balance denunciation and deterrence with demonstrated rehabilitation.

The accused pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism, five counts of publishing voyeuristic recordings, and one count of breaching a release order.

Between 2016 and 2023, the accused installed hidden recording devices in the homes and vacation property of five victims, recording them in various states of undress.

He subsequently published these intimate images on cyber-exploitation websites, including the victims' real names.

The accused committed some offences while on bail for similar charges involving his step-sister.

The court imposed a global sentence of 8.5 years in the penitentiary, less pre-sentence custody, to be served consecutively to an existing sentence.

The sentence reflects the egregious nature of the offences, the serious breach of trust, the repeated violations of privacy, and the devastating impact on the victims.

Nick Chrysostomou pled guilty to assault causing bodily harm after attacking a man with a hatchet during a road rage incident in Toronto.

The Court considered aggravating factors including the deliberate use of a weapon, the serious injury caused, and the public nature of the offence.

Mitigating factors included Chrysostomou’s lack of prior record, guilty plea, and rehabilitative potential.

The Court rejected a conditional discharge as contrary to public interest but imposed a 6-month Conditional Sentence Order with strict conditions, followed by 18 months probation, emphasizing denunciation, deterrence, restraint, and rehabilitation.

The offender was convicted of unauthorized possession of a loaded firearm following an acquittal for second-degree murder.

The Crown sought 8-10 years, while the defence sought 4-6 years.

The court considered the offender's serious criminal record, including prior firearm and violence convictions, and breaches of weapons prohibitions, as aggravating factors.

Mitigating factors included his youth, family support, disadvantaged background, and harsh pre-sentence custody conditions.

The court determined the appropriate range for a second s. 95 offence is 6-9 years and imposed a sentence of 7 years, less 834 days of enhanced credit for pre-sentence custody.

The accused, Naod Tsegazab, was charged with second-degree murder and unlawful possession of a loaded firearm after a fatal shooting in an apartment stairwell.

The co-accused, Joseph Bryan, was charged with accessory after the fact to murder.

The Crown's case relied heavily on circumstantial evidence and surveillance video.

The court found an air of reality to Tsegazab's claim of self-defence, as the deceased had led him into the stairwell and fired ten shots at him.

The Crown failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Tsegazab did not act in self-defence.

Tsegazab was acquitted of murder but convicted of the firearms charge.

Consequently, Bryan was acquitted of being an accessory after the fact.