Court File and Parties
COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO
Sharpe, Lang and Epstein JJ.A.
BETWEEN:
Her Majesty the Queen
Respondent
and
Mazin Odish
Appellant
Theodore Sarontis, for the appellant
Maureen McGuire, for the respondent
Heard: November 6, 2008
On appeal from the sentence imposed by Justice Lloyd Dean of the Superior Court of Justice on July 14, 2006, and from the sentence imposed by Justice Guy DeMarco of the Ontario Court of Justice on January 17, 2007.
APPEAL BOOK ENDORSEMENT
1The appellant received an effective 15 year sentence for 2 separate sets of serious charges arising from his prolonged high level drug trafficking enterprise. The offences included convictions for firearms, threatening and conspiracy to export. There were very significant amounts of drugs involved in the second set of offences which was committed while the appellant was in custody awaiting sentence on the first set of offences.
2We are not persuaded that the trial judges erred in their application of the applicable sentencing principles, in particular in their application of the principle of totality in the circumstances of these offences and this offender nor were the sentences outside the applicable range.
3Leave to appeal sentence is granted. The sentence appeal is dismissed.