Welcome to Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t! This week, lawyer Kyla Lee discusses conditional sentence breaches.
Acumen Law Corporation lawyer Kyla Lee gives her take on a made-in-Canada court case each week and discusses why these cases should have been heard by Canada’s highest court: the Supreme Court of Canada.
Richard Jr. Sauvé-Laliberté was given a conditional sentence for 126 days. A consequence of breaching your conditional sentence is that the conditional sentence order is terminated, and the remaining sentence time is served in jail.
Mr. Sauvé-Laliberté breached his conditional sentence order and was sentenced to jail. The time remaining in his conditional sentence order was a sufficient amount of time that the sentence was eligible to be served intermittently. However, the original conditional sentence order was 126 days which would have made it impossible for him to that by way of an intermittent sentence.
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