Court Receipts: the judge would not wait for the lockdown
In a 2025 Court of Appeal for Ontario case, a man spent almost two and a half years awaiting trial, 101 days of it in lockdown. The sentencing judge refused time to get the records. The appeal court called that callous and inaccurate and cut three months from the sentence. Free information, not legal advice.
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Jail lockdown records can matter at sentencing. One judge would not wait for them. In a 2025 Court of Appeal for Ontario case, a man spent almost two and a half years awaiting trial, 101 days of it in lockdown. The sentencing judge refused time to get the records and said the lockdowns were hard on everybody. The appeal court called that callous and inaccurate, and cut three months from the sentence. (This film has no spoken audio; this is its caption.)
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