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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 BCSC 1974

R. v. Mercieca

Ms. Mercieca received a two-year sentence for possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of trafficking after the court rejected a conditional sentence order.

  • Possession-for-the-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Conditional-sentence-order
  • Proportionality-in-sentencing
  • Aggravating-and-mitigating-factors
  • Dna-order
  • Firearm-prohibition
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 1875

R. v. Khojsteh Kashani

Mr. Khojsteh Kashani was sentenced to 11 years for seven sexual assault convictions arising from intimate clinic procedures, with consecutive terms and 20-year SOIRA registration.

  • Sexual-assault
  • Breach-of-trust
  • Conditional-sentence
  • Totality-principle
  • Concurrent-vs-consecutive-sentences
  • Pre-sentence-custody-credit
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2343

R. v. Raju

Sentencing reasons for Gavin Leznoff on two conspiracy-to-murder counts. The court accepted a joint submission and imposed six-and-a-half years plus ancillary orders.

  • Conspiracy-to-commit-murder
  • Joint-submission-on-sentence
  • Aggravating-and-mitigating-factors
  • Ancillary-orders-(firearm-prohibition,-dna,-no-contact,-forfeiture)
  • Victim-surcharge
  • Publication-ban
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 1858

R. v. De Castro

After guilty pleas to drug trafficking-related offences, the court imposed 12 months’ concurrent imprisonment, rejecting a conditional sentence because of youth involvement and the scale of the operation.

  • Possession-for-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Trafficking
  • Conditional-sentence
  • Denunciation
  • Deterrence
  • Youth-victimization
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 733

R. v. Coghill

Sentencing reasons for a violent, planned home invasion led to 11-year and 12-year global sentences, with credit for custody and strict bail conditions.

  • Home-invasion
  • Robbery
  • Aggravated-assault
  • Unlawful-confinement
  • Discharge-of-firearm
  • Firearm-prohibition
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 450

R. v. H.C.D.

Après un plaidoyer de culpabilité pour agression sexuelle, la Cour a rejeté une peine avec sursis et a imposé 18 mois d’emprisonnement, suivis de trois ans de probation.

  • Sentencing
  • Sexual-assault
  • Conditional-sentence
  • Soira
  • Dna-order
  • Firearm-prohibition
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Criminal-law 2024 BCSC 1278

R. v. Young

Sentencing for aggravated assault with a baseball bat in Kelowna: the court accepted a joint submission, imposed 601 days after credit, and designated the offender a long-term offender for 10 years.

  • Aggravated-assault
  • Long-term-offender-designation-(s.753.1)
  • Dangerous-offender-application-(s.753)
  • Gladue-considerations
  • Pre-sentence-custody-credit
  • Dna-order
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Criminal-law 2024 BCSC 1103

R. v. Hughes

Douglas Wayne Hughes was sentenced to 3.5 years concurrent for extortion, unlawful confinement, assault causing bodily harm, and assault with a weapon, with 598 days’ credit and 12 months’ probation.

  • Assault
  • Unlawful-confinement
  • Extortion
  • Assault-with-a-weapon
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Gladue-principles
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Criminal-law 2023 BCSC 2169

R. v. Sunner

The court sentenced Parmvir Sunner for fentanyl and other trafficking convictions and failure to remain at the scene, imposing a custodial sentence and probation.

  • Possession-for-the-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Failure-to-remain-at-scene-of-accident-(hit-and-run)
  • Conditional-sentence-order
  • Probation
  • Concurrent-and-consecutive-sentencing
  • Dna-order
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