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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2574

R. v. Buitenweg

The court sentenced Kimberley Grace Buitenweg and Joseph Shawn McWilliams to five years each for manslaughter after early guilty pleas and significant mitigation.

  • Manslaughter
  • Sentencing
  • Gladue-principles
  • Guilty-plea-mitigation
  • Causation
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
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Criminal 2025 ONCA 848

R. v. Amuthan

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed conviction appeals in a cocaine trafficking case, finding no error in the trial judge’s circumstantial evidence analysis.

  • Possession-for-the-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Possession-of-proceeds-of-crime
  • Circumstantial-evidence
  • Knowledge-and-control
  • Sentence-appeal
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 1495

R. v. Scott

The court sentenced Lindsay Scott to six years for manslaughter, with three years’ probation, after finding her culpability was reduced by mental illness and methamphetamine intoxication.

  • Manslaughter
  • Intoxication
  • Mental-disorder-as-mitigation
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Probation-conditions
  • Ancillary-orders-(firearms,-dna)
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Criminal-law 2025 BCCA 189

R. v. Moazami

The British Columbia Court of Appeal reduced Reza Moazami’s sentence from 23 years to 20 years and 8 months, and dismissed his fresh evidence application.

  • Right-to-trial
  • Fresh-evidence
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Mandatory-minimum-sentences
  • Totality-principle
  • Rehabilitation
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 1126

R. v. Bos

The court sentenced Justin Michael Bos to a global 19 years for two manslaughters by firearm and a firearms offence, with enhanced credit and ancillary orders.

  • Manslaughter
  • Manufacturing-and-trafficking-of-firearms
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Joint-sentencing-submissions-and-anthony-cook-principles
  • Ancillary-orders-(dna,-prohibition,-non-communication,-forfeiture)
  • Firearms-offences
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 539

R. v. Johnson-Audain

The court accepted a joint submission and sentenced Nathan Rashawn Johnson-Audain to six years for conspiracy to commit murder, with enhanced pre-trial custody credit and ancillary orders.

  • Conspiracy-to-commit-murder
  • Joint-submission-on-sentence
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Ancillary-orders
  • Impact-of-race-and-culture-assessment
  • Joint-sentencing-submission
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Criminal-law 2025 BCCA 77

R. v. Jaramillo

The Court of Appeal allowed the Crown’s sentence appeal, set aside an 8-month conditional sentence and removed an 11-month Charter deduction, restoring the global 48-month sentence.

  • Conditional-sentence-orders
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Section-7-security-of-the-person
  • Police-service-dog-deployment
  • Section-24(1)-charter-remedy
  • Abuse-of-process
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 159

R. v. Atanassov

Sentencing for sexual interference and making child pornography: the court imposed a global custodial sentence of 4.5 years, with probation and ancillary orders.

  • Sentencing-principles
  • Denunciation-and-deterrence
  • Totality-principle
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Ancillary-orders
  • Publication-ban
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Criminal-law 2025 BCCA 87

R. v. Dergez

The British Columbia Court of Appeal dismissed Blake Everett Dergez’s conviction appeal and sentence appeal, upholding findings that he deliberately doused a police officer with gasoline and issued threats.

  • Assault-with-a-weapon
  • Uttering-threats
  • Abuse-of-process
  • Totality-principle
  • Credibility-and-reliability-of-witnesses
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
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Criminal-law 2024 BCCA 415

R. v. Stan

Sentence appeal dismissed. The Court of Appeal held that the appellant was not similarly situated to his co-accused and that the 18-month sentence was fit.

  • Sentence
  • Parity-principle
  • Totality-principle
  • Pre-trial-custody-credit
  • Judicial-interim-release
  • Recidivism
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