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Sentencing reasons for a stepfather convicted of sexual interference of two stepdaughters, resulting in a global 10-year penitentiary sentence and ancillary orders.
The Court held the Crown properly preferred the indictment under s.574(1)(b) for offences founded on evidence at the preliminary inquiry despite the provincial justice's restriction; police acted lawfully under valid family court orders and statutory duties and the appellants' attempt to collaterally attack those orders in a criminal trial was impermissible; the necessity defence lacked an air of reality on the record; excluded wiretap intercepts were either prior consistent/self‑serving or irrelevant and their exclusion caused no prejudice; juror inquiry and trial judge conduct were within d…
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