The appellant was convicted of five counts of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking (fentanyl, morphine, oxycodone, hydromorphone, and methylphenidate) and one count of simple possession (buprenorphine), and sentenced to three years' imprisonment.
On appeal, she raised five grounds including errors in the directed verdict ruling, unreasonable verdict, refusal to consider sole possession by a co-accused, errors in the Charter s. 10(b) analysis, and fitness of sentence.
The Court of Appeal assumed without deciding that additional right-to-counsel breaches occurred but found the s. 24(2) balancing under Grant did not support exclusion, noting no systemic or deliberate disregard for Charter rights and a lack of causal connection between the breaches and the discovery of evidence.
The remaining conviction grounds were dismissed as attempts to parse the trial judge's reasons in search of error.
The conviction and sentence appeals were both dismissed.
