[The Defendant] may have seen the headline in today's Metro newspaper : "Gunplay Continues".
When you are coming into court to be sentenced for unauthorized possession of a firearm, with the crown asking for 18 months of jail time, that has got to seem like the worst possible timing.
R. v. Patton | (westlaw Canada)
2010 CarswellNS 245 | (Westlaw Canada)
Nova Scotia Provincial Court