Canada Case Law

R. v. O'Neill

Court

Court of Appeal for Ontario

Release pending appeal was granted because the appellant’s challenge to bad character evidence was clearly not frivolous, with no flight or public safety concern.

• Release pending appeal
• Conditional sentence suspension
• Admissibility of similar fact/bad character evidence
• Not frivolous standard
• Public confidence/enforceability
• S. 679(1) and s. 683(5) interplay

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