Sentencing for robbery involving a violent dog theft resulted in an 18-month conditional sentence order, house arrest, restitution, DNA order, and weapons prohibitions.
Curtis Crossley was sentenced for manslaughter after pleading guilty to the lesser offence. The court accepted a joint submission and imposed nine years and six months, with pre-sentence custody credit.
Given the specific facts — forceful occupied break and enter with degrading conduct and the separate strict liability offence of sharing intimate images — but balanced against the offender's lack of recent record, employment, parenting responsibilities, rehabilitative prospects and Pre Sentence Report recommendations, a non‑custodial rehabilitative disposition was proportionate: a suspended sentence on the break and enter with two years' probation and a four‑month conditional sentence for sharing intimate images to be served concurrently with two years' probation and ancillary orders includin…
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Break and enter of dwelling
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images (s.162.1)
The court found the accused NCRMD for first degree murder and aggravated assault, accepted schizophrenia expert evidence, and referred the matter to the Review Board.
Sentencing for breach of a long-term supervision order. The court accepted a joint 18-month submission, credited pre-sentence custody, imposed one day, and authorized DNA sampling.
Sentencing reasons accepting joint submissions for mischief and assault, with time-served dispositions, DNA orders, and 12 months’ probation for both accused.
Oral sentencing reasons in R. v. Bogarh: the court accepted a joint submission and imposed five years' imprisonment for accessory after the fact to murder, with three years' pretrial credit.
Given the offender's guilty plea, remorse, age, lack of prior record and rehabilitation prospects weighed against the aggravating factor of taking advantage of a cognitively impaired vulnerable victim, a fit and proportionate sentence is 90 days custody to be served intermittently, followed by 24 months probation with specified conditions, a primary DNA order, SOIRA registration for 20 years and a 10-year firearms prohibition; a longer period of incarceration was unnecessary and a conditional sentence was ineligible under s.742.1(f)(iii).