# Canadian Criminal Sentencing/Cases/Homicide
## Murder
### First Degree

* R. v. Greenwood, 2012 NSSC 194

### Second Degree

| Case | Citation | Parole Inelig. | Comments |
| R. v. Belcourt | 2012 BCSC 1844 | 17 years | |
| R. v. Dahr | 2012 ONCA 433 | 15 years | |
| R v. Blandon | 2012 ONSC 3864 | 12 years | |
| R. v. Hardy | 2012 NSSC 209 | 14 years | |
| R. v. Jojic | 2012 BCCA 101 | 13 years | |
| R. v. Hall | 2011 ONSC 7281 | 14 years | |
| R. v. Worm | [2009] S.J. No. 197, 2009 SKQB 122 | 16 years | offender and friends broke into victim's residence to rob them. Offender shot victim in front of family members including 14 year old. Offender was 23 year old aboriginal with an extensive record. |
| R. v. Danvers | [2005] O.J. No. 3532 (ONCA) | 15 years | offender was convicted of second degree murder for shooting a student in a nightclub. Offender was 19 years old with a lengthy criminal record. |
| R. v. Thackeray | [2004] O.J. No. 5866 | 11 years | offender plead guilty to second degree for stabbing a taxi driver 13 times in the head and neck. |
| R. v. Cook | [2003] B.C.J. No. 1246, 2003 BCCA 326 | 15 years | convicted of second-degree murder. Offender shot and killed taxi driver during robbery. Offender was 21 years old and no record. |
| R. v. McKnight | 1999 CanLII 3717 (ONCA) | 14 years | Stabbed wife to death over 10-15 minutes, inflicting more than 50 wounds. Unsuccessful defence of not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or defect. Reduced from 17 years on appeal. Offender was 52 years old with no criminal record. |
| R. v. Pearson | 2012 CanLII 47446 (ONSC) | 25 years | Execution-style murder with shotgun during a home invasion robbery. Offender had murdered another person two weeks earlier, and was found guilty of first-degree murder. Lack of remorse and denial of responsibility. Crown recommended parole ineligibility of 25 years; defence recommended 18-20 years. Also sentenced to five years for aggravated assault and two years for using a firearm to commit that aggravated assault, consecutive to one another and concurrent with the life sentence for murder. |
| R. v. Srun | 2013 ONSC 7039 (CanLII) | 13 years | Offender stabbed two victims at a party, killing one. Offender was 35 years old with no criminal record. Crown recommendation was parole ineligibility of 15-17 years; defence recommended 10-12 years. Also sentenced to 8 years concurrent for attempted murder. |

### Conspiracy to Commit

* R. v. Belcourt, 2012 BCSC 527 - 6 years

## Manslaughter

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Comments |
| R. v. Chapman | 2013 ONCA 15 (CanLII) | 9 years | Offender held down victim as co-accused strangled her. Offender got bat for co-accused who beat her to death. Co-accused convicted of 2nd degree murder (15yrs parole ineligible). |
| R. v. Jiwa | 2012 ONCA 532 | 12 years | manslaughter of police detective, dangerous op. of motor vehicle |
| R. v. Mason | 2012 MBCA 71 | life | set fire to rooming house, kills 2 people |
| R. v. Friday | 2012 ABQB 371 | 4 years | offender and victim drinking heavily, got into argument, offender stabbed him and left him outside in snow and died--offender was aboriginal |
| R. v. Bissonette | 2012 ABPC 170 | 5 years | lesser party in manslaughter--victim beaten in head multiple times with a 2x4 plank of wood--principal received 8 years |
| R. v. Vallee | 2012 BCPC 167 | 4 years | |
| R v McConnell | 2012 ABQB 369 | 6 years | mother drowns her two children |
| R v Prince | 2012 BCSC 293 | 7 to 10 years | manslaughter robbery |
| R v Rodgers | 2012 SKQB 80 | 7.5 years | |
| R. v. Abel | 2012 NLTD 27 | 7 years | |
| R. v. Valente | 2012 ABQB 151 | 4 years | |
| R. v. Jamieson | 2012 ONSC 1114 | 12 years | manslaughter by stabbing |
| R. v. Peynado | 2011 BCCA 524 | 9 years | appeal from 11 years; manslaughter from home invasion robbery |
| R. v. Kanate | 2011 ONCJ 770 | 7 years | |
| R. v. Abraham | 2011 MBQB 299 | 5 years | |
| R. v. Melissa Alexander | 2011 ONSC 6839 | 11 years | manslaughter; kills child |
| R. v. Sinclair | 2011 ABQB 652 | 5 years | |
| R. v. Hickey | 2011 NSSC 186 | 3.5 years | bar fight, punch results in death |
| R. v. Roks | 2011 ONCA 618 | 10 years | planned arson results in death |
| R v Grattan | 2011 BCSC 217 | 9 years | manslaughter home invasion robbery |
| R v Brisson | 2009 BCSC 1606 | 5 years | |
| R v Aubin | 2008 BCSC 400 | 5 years | |
| R v MacDonald | 2007 BCCA 606 | 7.5 years | home invasion |
| R v Thomas | 2007 BCSC 1530 | 9 years | home invasion |
| R v Peers and Harding | 2006 BCSC 1971 | life (12 years) | home invasion |
| R v Reid | 2006 BCSC 456 | 7 years | |
| R v Crossley | 2005 BCSC 1297 | 7 years | |
| R v Billings | 2004 BCSC 653 | 6 years | |
| R v Barton | 2003 BCCA 206 | 11 years | manslaughter and robbery |
| R v MacMillan | 2003 BCCA 372 | 7 years | |
| R v Maxwell | 1999 BCCA 648 | 17 years | manslaughter during a home invasion robbery |
| R v Kutschera | 1999 BCCA 748 | 12 years | home invasion robbery |

### Child Victim

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Comments |
| R. v. Rahman | 2012 NSSC 303 | 6.5 years | father hit newborn child multiple times causing death |
| R. v. Choy | 2009 ABQB 343 | 3 years | foster mother fought with 3 and a half year old child. Child hit his head on a toilet bowl and died. Signs of prior abuse. |
| R. v. Whitehawk | (2010), 359 Sask. R. 105 | 10 years | violence upon infant daughter over several days. 26 prior convictions, 7 for violence. |
| R. v. Da Silva | 2005 CanLII 46380 (ON CA), (2005), 203 C.C.C. (3d) 1 | 3 years | mother abandoned her child who died of starvation several times over 4 days. Child died of dehydration. Sentence was in the "low" end of the range. |
| R. v. Elliot | 2004 201 BCCA 220 | 10 years | malnourishment and physical abuse of child. |
| R. v. Stewart | 2003 NSCA 150 (CanLII), (2003), 221 N.S.R. (2d) 205 (NSCA) | 54 months | offender shook his girlfriend's two year old daughter causing death. |
| R. v. Fujii | 2002 ABQB 805 | 8 years | mother abandoned her two infant children for 10 days. Children died by dehydration and starvation. The offender had no prior record and suffered from depression and a borderline personality disorder. |

## Attempted Murder

| Case | Citation | Sentence | Comments |
| R. v. Vukaj | 2013 BCSC 79 (CanLII) | 14 years | convicted of attempt murder (14yrs), break and enter (5yrs), dangerous operation of a vehicle(10mo), uttering threats(1yr) |
| R v. Blandon | 2012 ONSC 3864 | 10 years | stabbing; also convicted of 2nd degree murder |
| R. v. Boissonneault | 2012 MBCA 40 | 14 years | shooting |
| R. v. Chevers | 2011 ONCA 569 | 15 years | |
| R. v. Marriott | 2011 NSSC 414 | 15 years | joint recommendation |
| R. v. Situ | 2010 ONCA 683 | 15 years | shooting at pool hall, victim rendered paraplegic |
| R. v. Belisle-Taylor | 2011 NSSC 159 | 10 years | |
| R. v. Smith | 2010 ONCA 229 | 10 years | |
| R. v. Ahmed-Saidi | 2001 CanLII 24100 (ON CA) | 8.5 years | |
| R. v. Joseph | 2000 BCSC 1891 | 10 years | shooting between drug dealers |
| R v Gould | [1990] N.S.J. No. 109 | 8 years | victim stabbed multiple times |