Law360 Canada ( September 3, 2025, 2:33 PM EDT) -- Leave to appeal by Izzard from sentence. Izzard, who has roots in both Indigenous and Black marginalized communities, was convicted, on a guilty plea, of aggravated assault and four other offences. The sentencing judge (judge) imposed a global sentence of 1,350 days before credit for time served. Three-and-a-half years of the sentence were allocated to the aggravated assault offence. Izzard argued that the judge’s reasoning was tainted by an error in principle and asked to be sentenced afresh. The alleged error was a failure to “fully consider” the impact of his Indigenous and racialized background, its impact on his moral culpability, and the availability of sentencing alternatives. He submitted that the judge failed to engage in a meaningful analysis of how Gladue factors might attenuate his moral blameworthiness. Izzard sought a reduced sentence equivalent to time served at the time of sentencing. The Crown argued that the extent to which Gladue and other marginalized identity factors justified a reduced or alternative sentence was a discretionary judgment entitled to deference on appeal, that the sentencing reasons had to be read functionally and contextually, and that while the judge could have been more explicit, the reasons were sufficient. It submitted that the sentence imposed was fit....