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