R. v. P.B.

Decided: 2026-09-25. Docket: COA-26-CR-0239. Citation: 2026 ONCA 671 (CanLII). Criminal and statutory offences — Sentencing — Assault and breach of probation — Appeal from sentence for assault (Criminal Code, s. 266) and failure to comply with probation order — Aggravating factors including intimate partner violence and assault on child — Mitigating factors including guilty plea, remorse, and harsh pre-sentence custody — Sentence upheld — Appeal dismissed | Procedure — Appeals — Appellate intervention in sentencing — Whether sentence was demonstrably unfit warranting intervention — Deference to sentencing judge absent error of law or error in principle — Sentencing objectives and principles under the Criminal Code applied — Reliance on R. v. Lacasse — No basis for intervention found — Appe