R v Comber

canada, canadian, case law, court opinion, canlii, mbca, 2026mbca75, 2026 mbca 75 (canlii), 2026, mbca, 75, (canlii), 2026, criminal and statutory offences, sentencing, manslaughter, firearm, court of appeal imposing sentence under criminal code, s. 686(3)(b), sentence warranted in law for manslaughter after verdict substituted, proportionality, denunciation and deterrence emphasised for reckless discharge, twelve years’ imprisonment imposed, with credit for pre, sentence custody, criminal and statutory offences, sentencing methodology, starting, point approach, manslaughter with a firearm, whether starting point of ten years appropriate for cases closer to murder than accident, r v parranto framework applied, aggravating and mitigating factors weighed, offence characterized as extremely serious and highly blameworthy, twelve years’ imprisonment imposed, criminal and statutory offences, sentencing principles, parity, comparator sentence, whether sentence should be similar to the other participant’s four, year sentence, guilty plea to different offence, joint recommendation and distinct conduct distinguished, sentence not a suitable comparator for parity purposes, parity submission rejected, procedure, pre, sentence custody, credit, enhanced credit, whether enhanced credit should be granted for time spent in custody, excluding periods already credited, criminal code, s. 719(1) considered, inference favouring enhanced credit noted, enhanced credit granted for all eligible custody time, go, forward sentence calculated, criminal and statutory offences, ancillary orders, dna order, weapons prohibition, whether a dna order and mandatory weapons prohibition should be made, criminal code, ss. 487.051 and 109 cited, ancillary orders addressed as mandatory consequences of conviction for manslaughter, dna order made, weapons prohibition imposed