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Criminal law 2025 BCSC 2438

R. v. Antonius

Sentencing for robbery involving a violent dog theft resulted in an 18-month conditional sentence order, house arrest, restitution, DNA order, and weapons prohibitions.

  • Robbery
  • Conditional sentence order
  • Restitution
  • Weapons prohibition
  • Dna databank order
  • Gladue factors
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Criminal law 2023 BCSC 2126

R. v. Crossley

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.

  • Manslaughter
  • Gladue principles
  • Pre-sentence custody credit
  • Joint submission on sentence
  • Weapons prohibition
  • Dna databank order
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Criminal law 2022 BCSC 694

R. v. Heth-Klems

On sentence for dangerous driving causing death, the court imposed 12 months’ imprisonment, a three-year driving prohibition and no DNA order.

  • Dangerous driving causing death
  • Conditional sentence order (cso) availability
  • Driving prohibition
  • Dna databank order
  • General deterrence and denunciation
  • Dangerous-driving-causing-death
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Criminal law 2021 NSSC 183

R. v. Scarfe

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…

  • Break and enter of dwelling
  • Non-consensual distribution of intimate images (s.162.1)
  • Conditional sentence
  • Probation
  • Publication restriction
  • Firearm prohibition
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Criminal law 2020 BCSC 1311

R. v. Gathergood

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.

  • Ncrmd
  • Insanity defence
  • Section 16 criminal code
  • Expert psychiatric evidence
  • Review board referral
  • Dna databank order
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Criminal law 2020 BCSC 954

R. v. Miller

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.

  • Breach of ltso
  • Sentencing range
  • Credit for time served
  • Dna databank order
  • Joint submission authority
  • Breach-of-ltso
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Criminal law 2020 BCSC 907

R. v. Doucette and Gunanoot

Sentencing reasons accepting joint submissions for mischief and assault, with time-served dispositions, DNA orders, and 12 months’ probation for both accused.

  • Mischief
  • Assault
  • Gladue factors
  • Dna databank order
  • Vulnerable victim (s.718.04)
  • Joint sentencing submission
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Criminal law 2020 BCSC 383

R. v. Bogarh

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.

  • Accessory after the fact
  • Joint sentence submission
  • Pre-trial custody credit
  • Victim impact statements
  • Dna databank order
  • Accessory-after-the-fact
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Criminal law 2020 BCSC 334

R. v. Stuiver

Cody Stuiver was sentenced to seven years for manslaughter as a party to a planned robbery that ended in a fatal firearm shooting in Vancouver.

  • Manslaughter
  • Party liability (s.21(2))
  • Mandatory minimums
  • Pre-sentence custody credit
  • Victim impact statements
  • Forfeiture
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Criminal law 2020 NSSC 54

R. v. Fizzard

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).

  • Sexual assault of a vulnerable person
  • Sentencing principles
  • Dna databank order
  • Sexual offender information registration (soira)
  • Firearms prohibition
  • Conditional sentence ineligibility
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