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Criminal law 2025 BCSC 1480

R. v. Reinders

Sentence reasons in a drug and firearms case: the court suspended passing of sentence, imposed one year of probation, and ordered DNA, forfeiture, a firearms ban, and a victim fine surcharge.

  • Possession for the purpose of trafficking
  • Firearms prohibition
  • Suspended sentence
  • Time served credit
  • Victim fine surcharge
  • Forfeiture of proceeds and weapons
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Criminal law 2024 NSSC 415

R v. Banks

The theft conviction was stayed under the Kienapple principle because it arose from the same acts as the fraud; s.380(1.1) mandatory minimum two-year imprisonment applies because the subject-matter value of the fraud (value put at risk by obtaining about 820,000 lbs of lobster) exceeded $1M even though actual proven loss was uncertain; a five-year custodial sentence is fit and proper given the magnitude, complexity and duration of the scheme, the significant impact on the victim, and the offender's prior similar convictions; ancillary orders including restitution and fine in lieu were limited…

  • Mandatory minimums
  • Conditional sentence
  • Suspended sentence
  • Aggravating and mitigating factors
  • Prohibition orders
  • Victim surcharge
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Criminal law 2019 BCSC 1404

R. v. Schirmer

Sentence appeal? No—this is a sentencing decision imposing concurrent jail terms for mid-level drug trafficking involving cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, MDMA, and methamphetamine.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Possession for purpose of trafficking
  • Fentanyl aggravation
  • Pre-sentence custody credit
  • Firearms prohibition
  • Dna sample order
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Criminal law 2018 BCSC 1013

R. v. Edwardsen

Sentencing for multiple drug and firearms convictions. The court imposed an eight-year global sentence after finding the initial 11.5-year total offended totality.

  • Trafficking
  • Possession for the purpose of trafficking
  • Production of controlled substance
  • Unlawful possession of firearms
  • Concurrent and consecutive sentencing
  • Totality principle
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Criminal law 2015 BCSC 1942

R. v. Leobrera

Sentence for producing methamphetamine: three years’ imprisonment, plus weapons prohibition, DNA order, forfeiture, and a stay of remaining counts.

  • Production of methamphetamine
  • General deterrence
  • Denunciation
  • Sentencing parity
  • Ancillary orders
  • Stay of proceedings
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Criminal law 2014 BCSC 901

R. v. Tremblay

After a jury conviction for fraud, forgery, and theft, the court sentenced Daniel Joseph Adrien Tremblay to 22 months on the fraud count, with concurrent sentences on the other counts.

  • Breach of trust
  • Aggravating and mitigating factors
  • Totality principle
  • Loss of parole impact
  • Specific and general deterrence
  • Restitution
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Criminal law 2013 BCSC 2466

R. v. Langlet

Sentencing reasons in a first degree murder case. The court imposed life imprisonment, parole ineligibility until 2035, plus firearms and DNA orders.

  • First degree murder
  • Firearms prohibition order s.109
  • Dna sample order s.487.051
  • Parole ineligibility s.745.01
  • Reduction application s.745.6
  • First-degree-murder
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Criminal law 2013 NSPC 121

R. v. Jamieson

The joint submission was within the permissible range and was accepted; remand credit was declined because the accused had been on bail for related matters; aggravating factors (violent robberies, targeting an ATM user, significant victim impact and commission while on bail) warranted a strongly denunciatory sentence but the accused's age required preservation of rehabilitation prospects, resulting in a five-year global sentence comprised of a four-year sentence for the Connors robbery with a consecutive one-year sentence for the MacKinnon robbery, concurrent short sentences on remaining coun…

  • Guilty plea mitigation
  • Joint sentence submission
  • Remand credit
  • Denunciation and deterrence
  • Victim impact
  • No-contact endorsement
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Criminal law 2013 BCSC 2143

R. v. Kim

Sentencing on a guilty plea to manslaughter arising from a fatal shooting in a parking lot. The court accepted a joint submission and imposed a seven-year global sentence.

  • Manslaughter
  • Pre-sentence custody credit
  • Joint sentencing submission
  • Ancillary orders
  • Victim impact
  • Sentencing
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Criminal law 2013 BCSC 1192

R. v. Rose

The court accepted a joint sentencing submission in a theft matter, imposing five months’ imprisonment concurrent on two counts, with no probation and a DNA order.

  • Theft
  • Sentencing principles
  • Dna order
  • Drug addiction
  • Concurrent sentences
  • Probation
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