Firearms Prohibition

Sentencing of a first offender convicted at trial of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, uttering a threat to cause death, and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

The accused attacked his sister's husband with a box cutter knife in the family home, inflicting deep cuts requiring 70 stitches, and also cut his own father who intervened.

The accused absconded and was sentenced in absentia after his counsel was removed from the record.

The court found the stated intent to kill was a significant aggravating factor beyond the mere utterance of a death threat.

While acknowledging the Crown's proposed range of 3.5 to 4 years was below what the circumstances warranted, the court imposed a global sentence of 4 years' custody, with ancillary orders including DNA, a firearms prohibition, a no-contact order, and restitution of $26,338.

The accused was charged with multiple offences, including assault, sexual assault, forcible confinement, and firearms offences, primarily against his former intimate partner, as well as one count of assault against her child.

The trial focused heavily on the credibility and reliability of the witnesses, as the accused denied the allegations.

The court found the complainant and other Crown witnesses credible and rejected the accused's testimony.

The accused was found guilty of assault, choking, assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, uttering threats, forcible confinement, mischief, sexual assault, possession of a firearm contrary to a prohibition order, and assault of the child.

The accused was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder for shooting the victim.

The court imposed the mandatory minimum sentence of life imprisonment without parole eligibility for 25 years.

The court noted that this was the accused's second first-degree murder conviction, but due to the Supreme Court's decision in Bissonnette, consecutive periods of parole ineligibility could not be imposed.

The court also ordered a lifetime weapons prohibition, a DNA order, and a lifetime non-communication order with the victim's family and a key witness.

Sentencing decision for robbery and multiple breaches of recognizance arising from a late-night convenience store robbery in which the offender threatened to shoot the clerk with a purported firearm.

The offender pleaded guilty and had served approximately 16 months of pre‑trial custody, credited as two years.

The court considered the offender’s extensive criminal record alongside Gladue factors, including a traumatic upbringing, substance abuse, and systemic issues affecting Indigenous offenders.

Applying the principles from Gladue, Wells, and Ipeelee, the court found the punitive objectives of sentencing had been satisfied by pre‑trial detention.

A suspended sentence with three years’ probation was imposed, with rehabilitative and community‑based conditions.

Following convictions for attempted murder and related firearm and violence offences arising from a brief but violent incident, the court imposed a global penitentiary sentence.

The offender abducted and confined the complainant at gunpoint in retaliation for a dispute with her partner and attempted to shoot her, but the firearm malfunctioned.

The court reviewed appellate jurisprudence on sentencing ranges for attempted murder and assessed aggravating and mitigating circumstances, including the offender’s criminal record, the absence of physical injury, and the psychological impact on the victim.

Applying the totality principle and granting enhanced credit for pre-sentence custody, the court determined that a 10‑year global sentence was appropriate before credit.

After credit of 35 months for pre‑sentence custody, the effective sentence imposed was 85 months' imprisonment.

The accused were convicted after trial of trafficking in cocaine contrary to s.5(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act following police surveillance and the seizure of approximately one kilogram of cocaine.

The court dismissed a Charter application seeking to exclude the drug evidence and registered convictions after the defence conceded the Crown had proven the charges while preserving not‑guilty pleas for appeal purposes.

In determining sentence, the court emphasized the serious nature of cocaine trafficking, the commercial motivation for the offence, and the significant quantity involved.

Aggravating factors included participation as part of a trafficking team and the kilogram quantity of cocaine, while limited mitigation arose from the focused litigation of legitimate Charter issues and admissions that streamlined the trial.

Sentences of six and a half years’ imprisonment for one accused and six years for the co‑accused were imposed, together with ancillary DNA and firearms prohibition orders.