DATE: 20040312 DOCKET: C40038

COURT OF APPEAL FOR ONTARIO

RE:

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN (Respondent) - and - BRADLEY KEELER (Appellant)

BEFORE:

CATZMAN, DOHERTY and ARMSTRONG JJ.A.

COUNSEL:

Christopher Hicks for the appellant

Philip Perlmutter for the respondent

HEARD & ENDORSED:

March 12, 2004

On appeal from the sentence imposed by Justice William A. Gorwich of the Ontario Court of Justice dated November 12, 2002.

APPEAL BOOK ENDORSEMENT

[1] We would dismiss the appeal. The trial judge carefully reviewed all of the appropriate factors in sentencing, and his sentence was not manifestly unfit and does not reflect any error in principle.

[2] While the appellant's efforts at rehabilitation are to be encouraged, his progress to date is a matter appropriately to be considered by the parole authorities.