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Criminal-law 2026 ONCA 222

R. v. Greer

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Kenneth Greer’s sentence appeal and upheld a five-year global sentence for offences arising from escalating intimate partner violence and firearms offenses.

  • Intimate-partner-violence
  • Breach-of-probation
  • Criminal-harassment
  • Break-and-enter
  • Possession-of-firearm
  • Victim-impact-statement
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2592

R. v. Khouchaba

The court accepted a joint sentencing submission and imposed a 3-year global jail term for unlawful possession of a loaded prohibited firearm and a prohibited magazine.

  • Possession-of-prohibited-firearm
  • Possession-of-prohibited-device-(magazine)
  • Joint-sentencing-submission
  • Firearms-prohibition-order
  • Dna-designation-order
  • Forfeiture-of-offence-related-property
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2542

R. v. Hayes

Sentencing after conviction for breaking and entering a dwelling and careless firearm storage; the court imposed 22 months’ custody, consecutive terms, and ancillary firearms orders.

  • Breaking-and-entering
  • Uttering-threats
  • Careless-storage-of-firearms
  • Weapons-prohibition
  • Forfeiture
  • Victim-surcharge-waiver
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2484

R. v. Sohi

The court sentenced a first-time offender convicted of drug trafficking and firearms offences to four years, finding the gun and drugs were part of one endeavour.

  • Trafficking
  • Possession-of-firearm
  • Concurrent-versus-consecutive-sentences
  • Totality-principle
  • Denunciation-and-deterrence
  • Mitigating-and-aggravating-factors
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2427

R. v. Harris

The court found Mr. Harris guilty on all counts after concluding he constructively possessed drugs and a firearm in a vehicle and held the drugs for trafficking.

  • Possession
  • Constructive-possession
  • Possession-for-the-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Circumstantial-evidence
  • Burden-of-proof
  • Firearms-possession
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2682

R. v. Mattatall

The court convicted Christopher Le Mattatall on firearm, drug trafficking, and obstruction counts, but acquitted him of possession of stolen property.

  • Possession-for-the-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Unauthorized-possession-of-a-firearm
  • Careless-storage/transport-of-firearm
  • Possession-of-property-obtained-by-crime
  • Obstruction-of-a-peace-officer
  • Circumstantial-evidence-and-k-9-tracking
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2435

R. v. Buchanan

The court sentenced Mr. Buchanan to 30 months for unlawful firearm possession and 6 months concurrent for possession without registration, rejecting a conditional sentence.

  • Possession-of-prohibited-firearm
  • Possession-of-firearm-without-registration
  • Conditional-sentence
  • Denunciation-and-deterrence
  • Pre-sentence-custody-credit
  • Firearms-possession
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2411

R. v. Reed

The court accepted a joint submission and sentenced Richard Charles Reed to ten years for attempted murder, with firearm prohibitions, DNA and forfeiture orders.

  • Attempted-murder
  • Joint-submission-on-sentence
  • Plea-inquiry
  • Aggravating-and-mitigating-factors
  • Ancillary-orders
  • Dna-order
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Criminal-law 2025 ONCA 725

R. v. Kurzyna

La Cour d’appel de l’Ontario rejette l’appel de Kamil Kurzyna de sa condamnation et de sa peine pour possession de drogue et infractions liĂ©es aux armes Ă  feu.

  • Section-8-search-and-seizure
  • Section-9-arbitrary-detention/arrest
  • Section-24(2)-exclusion-of-evidence
  • Sentencing
  • Traffic-stop
  • Section-9-arbitrary-detention
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2190

R. v. Kovacs

Oral reasons for sentence in a drug and firearms case: concurrent terms for trafficking counts, consecutive terms for weapons offences, and 1,416 days remaining after credit.

  • Possession-for-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Possession-of-prohibited-firearm
  • Possession-contrary-to-court-order
  • Totality-principle
  • Pre‐sentence-custody-credit
  • Ancillary-orders-(firearms-prohibition,-dna,-forfeiture)
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