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Criminal law 2025 BCCA 208

R. v. Baptiste

The Court of Appeal upheld firearm convictions against a Kienapple challenge, finding pointing a firearm and recklessly discharging it were distinct wrongs. A threats conviction was quashed.

  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Statutory interpretation of s.87 and s.244.2
  • Uttering threats
  • Standard of review
  • Kienapple-principle
  • Firearms-offences
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Criminal law 2023 BCCA 13

R. v. P.R.J.

The Court of Appeal upheld the finding that taking a child’s hand to the accused’s genitals could amount to invitation to sexual touching, but stayed that count under Kienapple.

  • Invitation to sexual touching (s.152)
  • Sexual interference (s.151)
  • Sexual assault (s.271)
  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Misapprehension of evidence
  • Child witness evidence
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Criminal law 2018 BCSC 1319

R. v. Lawrence

Sentencing reasons in R. v. Lawrence for break and enter and firearms offences. The court rejected Kienapple stays and imposed a 40-month global sentence with credit for custody.

  • Breaking and entering
  • Theft
  • Possession of prohibited/restricted firearms
  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Totality principle
  • Gladue considerations
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Criminal law 2017 BCCA 26

R. v. Alderman

The Court of Appeal set aside an aggravated assault conviction under Kienapple and permanently stayed that charge, but upheld an eight-year attempted murder sentence.

  • Attempted murder
  • Aggravated assault
  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Remorse in sentencing
  • Risk assessment
  • Permanent stay
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Criminal law 2015 BCSC 162

R. v. Montemurro

The court sentenced Cory Joseph Montemurro and Joseph Bruce Skreptak for multiple firearms offences, conditionally stayed one overlapping count, and imposed concurrent prison terms and ancillary orders.

  • Possession of firearms
  • Mandatory minimum sentences
  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Pre-trial custody credit
  • Bail conditions as mitigation
  • Ancillary orders and forfeiture
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Criminal law 2006 BCCA 498

R. v. Hawkins

The British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld a criminal harassment conviction but stayed the uttering threats conviction under Kienapple.

  • Criminal harassment
  • Uttering threats
  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Statutory interpretation of s.264
  • Criminal-harassment
  • Uttering-threats
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Criminal law 2006 BCSC 1124

R. v. Grabowski

The court stayed overlapping arson convictions under Kienapple, declined to declare Kenneth Grabowski a dangerous offender, and instead imposed a long-term offender sentence.

  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Long-term supervision
  • Dangerous offender criteria
  • Sentencing principles (ss.718-718.2)
  • Pre-trial custody credit
  • Dna production order
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Criminal law 2006 BCSC 944

R. v. Mohebtash

The court held Kienapple did not bar convictions for uttering a forged document and attempted fraud, and imposed concurrent eight-month custodial sentences.

  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Uttering forged document
  • Attempted fraud
  • Conditional sentence
  • General deterrence
  • Kienapple-principle
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Criminal law [1989] 1 SCR 1645

R. v. Pringle

The Supreme Court held that a s. 83(1) firearm conviction required a distinct underlying indictable offence conviction, and dismissed the Crown’s appeal.

  • Use of firearm during indictable offence (s.83)
  • Kienapple principle (multiple convictions)
  • Remittal to trial judge (s.623)
  • Duplicitous counts and charging requirements
  • Consecutive sentencing (s.83(2))
  • Firearms-offences
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