R v Araya

Decided: 2026-10-28. Docket: 2301-0193A. Citation: 2026 ABCA 348 (CanLII). Criminal and statutory offences — Sentencing — Conditional sentences — Criminal Code, ss 718.1 and 742.1 — Whether a Conditional Sentence Order was disproportionate to the gravity of the offences and moral blameworthiness — R v Proulx applied to availability and appropriateness — Denunciation and deterrence treated as paramount but balanced with restraint and rehabilitation — Appeal dismissed | Criminal and statutory offences — Sentencing — Aggravating and mitigating factors — Whether the sentencing judge erred in analysing aggravating and mitigating factors — Alleged flight from police and surrounding circumstances assessed on the record — No evidence of other criminality treated as relevant to moral blameworthines