Sentencing decision following guilty pleas to prowling at night, obstructing a peace officer, carrying a concealed weapon, and possessing a loaded prohibited firearm after the accused attended uninvited at a former intimate partner's residence in the early morning while carrying a loaded 9mm handgun.
The court treated as aggravating the intimate-partner context, the significant psychological harm to the complainant, the loaded handgun, and the accused's abandonment of the weapon when police approached.
Although the court gave mitigating weight to the guilty plea, youth, lack of record, anti-Black racism and poor remand conditions, and immigration consequences, it held that denunciation and deterrence remained predominant.
Applying Summers credit and the conditional sentence framework, the court concluded that a community-based sentence would not adequately reflect the gravity of bringing a loaded handgun to a former partner's home, and imposed a net custodial sentence with probation and ancillary orders.
