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Criminal law 2025 BCCA 98

R. v. Otchere

The Court of Appeal dismissed a sentence appeal in a dial-a-dope cocaine trafficking case, finding an error in principle but upholding six months' imprisonment and 12 months' probation as fit.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • Conditional sentence orders
  • Proportionality
  • Exceptional circumstances
  • Parity
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Criminal law 2024 BCSC 1481

R. v. Cooke

Sentencing after convictions for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. The court imposed 10 months’ custody for Cooke and 6 months for Otchere, plus probation and ancillary orders.

  • Drug trafficking
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • Sentencing principles
  • Dna order
  • Firearms prohibition
  • Forfeiture
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Criminal law 2023 BCCA 107

R. v. Knauff

The Court of Appeal dismissed Mr. Knauff’s appeal from conviction for drug trafficking possession, holding the trial judge’s credibility assessment disclosed no reversible error.

  • Possession for the purpose of trafficking
  • Credibility assessment
  • W.(d.) test
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • Trial reasons and sufficiency of reasons
  • Credibility-assessment
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Criminal law 2022 BCSC 2035

R. v. Lawson

Sentence for possession of cocaine for trafficking in a dial-a-dope operation. The court imposed a 12-month conditional sentence order with strict house arrest, probation, and firearm prohibitions.

  • Possession for the purpose of trafficking
  • Conditional sentence order
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • General deterrence
  • Charter s.10(b) breach
  • Sentencing
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Criminal law 2022 BCSC 1665

R. v. Perri

The court dismissed Mr. Perri’s entrapment application, finding no reasonable suspicion before the first call and that the opening remark did not offer an offence.

  • Entrapment
  • Reasonable suspicion
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • Abuse of process
  • Police conduct
  • Reasonable-suspicion
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Criminal law 2022 BCSC 1596

R. v. Downey

Sentencing for trafficking ketamine and fentanyl. The court imposed 18 months’ imprisonment less 122 days’ credit, declined a conditional sentence, and made ancillary orders.

  • Trafficking
  • Fentanyl
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • Conditional sentence order
  • Aggravating and mitigating factors
  • Pre-sentence custody credit
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Criminal law 2022 BCSC 518

R. v. Kim

The court sentenced Billie Onare Kim to a global 10-year term for drug trafficking and firearms offences arising from the Green Planet dial-a-dope operation.

  • Fentanyl trafficking
  • Carfentanil
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • Totality and parity
  • Ancillary orders (dna, forfeiture, weapons prohibition)
  • Drug-trafficking
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Criminal law 2021 ONCA 561

R. v. Henry-Osbourne

The series of telephone calls and text exchanges provided a constellation of objectively discernable facts from which the undercover officer formed a reasonable suspicion before requesting a specific quantity of heroin; therefore the accused was not entrapped and the convictions stand.

  • Entrapment
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • Reasonable suspicion
  • Stay of proceedings
  • Undercover policing
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Criminal law 2020 BCSC 1211

R. v. Saumier

The court denied the Crown’s application to let a police officer testify that observed conduct was a drug transaction, treating the proposed evidence as expert opinion.

  • Opinion evidence
  • Expert evidence
  • Mohan criteria
  • Compendious statement of facts
  • Lawful arrest
  • Drug trafficking
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Criminal law 2020 BCSC 1139

R. v. Colligan

The court imposed a two-year-less-one-day conditional sentence for cocaine trafficking, emphasizing Gladue factors, rehabilitation, and the need to address absconding through strict conditions.

  • Trafficking
  • Dial-a-dope operations
  • Conditional sentence order
  • Gladue principles
  • Absconding and pre-sentence rehabilitation
  • Denunciation and deterrence
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