Welcome to Cases That Should Have Gone to the Supreme Court of Canada, But Didn’t! This week, lawyer Kyla Lee discusses parole ineligibility.
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.
Deanna Passera was convicted of a criminal offence. After her conviction, but before she was sentenced, she spent some time in jail, beginning to serve her sentence.
Unfortunately, a question arose to whether or not that time before she was sentenced and after she was convicted, counted towards her period before she was eligible for early release.
The court had to consider in her case whether or not the combined effect of certain provisions of the Criminal Code and certain provisions of the Charter ultimately prevented her from getting an earlier release because she had started serving her sentence before she was actually sentenced.
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