The applicants sought termination of their conditional supervision orders approximately two years before their scheduled expiry date.
They had been sentenced to the maximum youth sentence of 10 years (6 years custody and 4 years conditional supervision) for first degree murder in 2006.
The court addressed the threshold issue of jurisdiction to terminate conditional supervision orders under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, finding that such jurisdiction exists either by implication from the statutory language or through the court's inherent authority.
On the merits, the court balanced the principles of accountability and rehabilitation, ultimately granting the application and terminating the conditional supervision orders on December 15, 2014, exactly nine years from the finding of guilt.
