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Criminal law 2022 BCSC 967

R. v. Herbert

The court sentenced Milad Faud Herbert to two years plus one day for trafficking fentanyl, imposed a 10-year firearms ban and DNA order, and waived the victim fine surcharge.

  • Trafficking in fentanyl
  • Joint submission on sentence
  • Dna order
  • Weapons ban under s.109(2)
  • Victim fine surcharge waiver
  • Rehabilitation and programming
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Criminal law 2019 BCCA 280

R. v. Manca

The Court of Appeal reduced a custodial sentence from 10 to 9 months after finding the sentencing judge departed from a joint submission without adequate basis. The probation condition was upheld, with clarified wording.

  • Joint submissions
  • Residual probation conditions
  • Pre-sentence custody credit
  • Standard of review
  • Sentencing
  • Joint-submissions
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Criminal law 2019 BCSC 1313

R. v. Tomczyk

Sentencing decision for drug trafficking offences involving methamphetamine and carfentanil, with concurrent terms of 12 months and four years, plus ancillary orders.

  • Possession for purpose of trafficking
  • Carfentanil
  • Methamphetamine
  • Sentencing principles
  • Aggravating and mitigating factors
  • Knowledge of drug identity
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Criminal law 2019 NLCA 43

R. v. Roberts

Leave granted; sentencing judge correctly reduced the Pharmacy Solutions sentence to 24 months for totality based primarily on unusually strong rehabilitative evidence but erred in making that reduced 24‑month sentence concurrent with the unexpired Hayloft sentence without proper s.718.3(4) consideration and adequate balancing of denunciation/deterrence; court set aside concurrency and ordered the reduced 24‑month sentence to be served consecutively to the Hayloft sentence; lifetime firearms prohibition upheld as a valid discretionary order despite errors about its mandatory status.

  • Totality principle
  • Concurrent vs consecutive sentences
  • Sentencing for multiple offences
  • Delay in charging/dna investigation
  • Rehabilitation vs denunciation
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Criminal law 2019 BCSC 356

R. v. Schneider

Sentencing reasons in a fentanyl trafficking case. The court rejected a suspended sentence, imposed 26 months' imprisonment, probation, a firearms ban, and a DNA order.

  • Trafficking
  • Fentanyl epidemic
  • Rehabilitation
  • Denunciation and deterrence
  • Pre-sentence custody credit
  • Ancillary orders (firearms ban, dna)
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Criminal law 2018 BCCA 371

R. v. Engh

The Court of Appeal for British Columbia quashed a s. 109 firearms prohibition order imposed after a guilty plea for fire damage to a snow groomer, and granted an extension of time to appeal.

  • Section 109 criminal code
  • Section 434 criminal code (damage by fire)
  • Extension of time to appeal
  • Appeal jurisdiction
  • Criminal-sentencing
  • Firearms-prohibition
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Criminal law 2018 BCSC 1627

R. v. Orr

Sentencing decision in R. v. Orr imposing a four-year global sentence, 21.5 months of pretrial custody credit, and statutory DNA and firearms orders.

  • Pretrial custody credit
  • Joint submission sentencing
  • Drug trafficking
  • Sentencing
  • Pretrial-custody-credit
  • Dna-order
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Criminal law 2016 BCSC 1275

R. v. Charette

Sentencing reasons for low-level Schedule I drug trafficking, with jail, probation, DNA, forfeiture, and a firearms prohibition imposed after credit for pre-sentence custody.

  • Possession for the purpose of trafficking
  • Sentencing principles (denunciation, deterrence, rehabilitation)
  • Pre-sentence custody credit
  • Brain injury as mitigation
  • Conditional/suspended sentence suitability
  • Dna orders
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Criminal law 2016 NSSC 94

R. v. DeYoung

The court accepted the parties' true joint recommendation for a global sentence of 36 months after applying s.718 objectives and s.718.2(a) factors, finding significant aggravation in the offender's lengthy criminal record and some mitigation in the guilty pleas and demonstrated remorse; the joint recommendation was supported by comparable authorities and factual circumstances, and ancillary orders for DNA, a seven year firearms prohibition, a three year driving prohibition and victim fine surcharge were appropriate and imposed.

  • Break and enter
  • Theft
  • Assault with a weapon
  • Driving while disqualified
  • Possession of stolen property
  • Ancillary orders
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Criminal law 2015 NSSC 323

R. v. Dunphy

The court accepted the joint recommendation of experienced counsel and imposed three years custody as an appropriate sentence; it ordered forfeiture of specified property including payment of $15,000, revoked the restraint order as to released property, and imposed the mandatory firearms prohibition under s.109; charges against Ms. Butler and other matters solely involving Dunphy were withdrawn while indictments with co-accused remain in place.

  • Guilty plea
  • Joint recommendation
  • Restraint order
  • Order for forfeiture
  • Withdrawal of charges
  • Custody length
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