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28 Feb '14
In R. v. T.A.P., 2014 ONCA 141, the Ontario Court of Appeal imposed what essentially amounts to a two-year house arrest sentence for possession of a loaded handgun with a defaced serial number. The case has illustrates the sentencing range for “non-true crime” handgun offences.
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The legality of this mandatory minimum sentence was the issue under consideration in R. v. Lloyd. The Court found that the one-year minimum violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as in many situations it “is a sentence which Canadians would find abhorrent or intolerable.”
February 2014
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