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· 12/15/1867

The Eledona

Citations

  • 8 F. Cas. 440
  • 2 Ben. 31

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • affirming reassessment, after one specification was dismissed and two others were affirmed, on grounds the maximum sentence did not change, sentence was well within the maximum for the remaining offenses, and appellant expressed no remorse
  • “We will only disturb the [CCA’s] reassessment [of a sentence] in order to prevent obvious miscarriages of justice or abuses of discretion.”
  • reassessment appropriate where “the accused’s sentence would have been at least of a certain magnitude”
  • reassessment appropriate where \the accused’s sentence would have been at least of a certain magnitude\
  • lower court did not abuse discretion by not reducing sentence upon reassessment

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Judges: Blatchford

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