Stay decision encourages offenders to take ‘significant rehabilitative steps,’ court rules

By Amanda Jerome ( May 10, 2023, 12:21 PM EDT) -- In an “exceptional” case that warranted “appellate intervention to respond to the appellant’s significant positive transformation,” the Court of Appeal for Ontario has stayed the custodial portion of a drug trafficking sentence, highlighting the “extraordinarily successful rehabilitative steps” taken by the appellant....

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