A trip to the Supreme Court of Canada!
R. v. Ipeelee seems like an odd case for the Supreme Court to hear, but Justices Binnie, Fish, and Rothstein granted the leave to appeal from the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Perhaps a substantial re-visit to Gladue is forthcoming. Maybe it’s because of the seemingly harsh sentence (30 months imprisonment + 6 months pre-custody). Who knows? Regardless, it should be an interesting one to watch. The Director of Public Prosecutions and the Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto Inc. were both allowed as interveners.
The Applicant was found in possession of alcohol and in a severely intoxicated state riding a bicycle the wrong way on a one-way portion of a major downtown street. The Applicant plead guilty to this offence of breaching the alcohol abstention condition of his long-term supervision order. The sentencing judge imposed the following sentence: 30 months imprisonment, in addition to six months pre-sentence custody. The Court of Appeal allowed leave to appeal the sentence and dismissed the appeal.
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