Aggravated Assault (Sentencing Cases) (Prior to 2001)

Until 2000

Case Name	Prv.	Crt.	Sentence	Summary
R v MJA, 2000 CanLII 20271 (NB KB)	NB	SC
R v Gagliardi, 2000 ABCA 137 (CanLII), per Jones JA	AB	CA
R v Tusek, 1999 CanLII 2075 (ON CA), [1999] OJ No 3413 (CA), per curiam	ON	CA	4 years imprisonment	stabbing customer in restaurant; age 19; no record
R v Bunes, 1999 ABCA 29 (CanLII), per Perras JA	AB	CA
R v MacLeod, 1999 BCCA 420 (CanLII), per MacKenzie JA	BC	CA	3 years imprisonment	brutal beating and sexual assault
R v Blackmore, 1999 CanLII 4059 (PE SCAD), per Carruthers JA	PEI	CA	4 years imprisonment
R v Chisholm, 1998 CanLII 2740 (NS C.A.), per Bateman JA	NS	CA	6 months imprisonment	aggravated assault; drunken bar fight
R v Murphy, 1998 CanLII 31152 (NS SC), per Kelly J	NS	SC
R v Berry, 1998 ABCA 107 (CanLII), per curiam	AB	CA	2 years less a day
R v Rasanen, 1997 CanLII 3368 (BC C.A.), per Hall JA	BC	CA	6 years imprisonment	premeditated attack; bragged to friends about it.
R v McQuaid, 1997 NSCA 209 (CanLII), per Chipman JA	NS	CA	2 years imprisonment
R v Dixon, 1997 NSCA 50 (CanLII), per Chipman JA	NS	CA
R v Powell, 1994 CanLII 4072 (NS CA), per Clarke CJ	NS	CA	Suspended Sentence	Offender got into a fist fight with his mother's boyfriend causing bruises and cuts. Offender was unemployed and had a prior related record for assaults. Court emphasized rehabilitation. The offender was "involved an accused who was found guilty of aggravated assault after getting into a fight with and causing injury to his mother’s boyfriend. In reaching the decision to impose a suspended sentence with three years’ probation, the court considered the past record of the accused, the fact that it was a family argument, and that all parties had been drinking at the time of the offence."
R v Powell, 1994 NSCA 204 (CanLII), per Clarke CJ	NS	CA
R v Marks, 1994 CanLII 9742 (NL CA), 91 CCC (3d) 421, per O’Neill JA	NL	SC
R v Lawrence, 1993 CanLII 4611 (NS SC), {{{4}}}, per Goodfellow J	NS	SC
R v McDonald, 1992 CanLII 8257 (SK CA), per Tallis JA	SK	CA	3 years imprisonment	The offender hit the victim in the face with a glass, knocking him unconscious. The offender was 21 years old with a lengthy record.
R v Desmond, 1992 CanLII 2581 (NS CA), per Clarke CJ	NS	CA
R v Childs, 1991 ABCA 300 (CanLII), per curiam	AB	CA	7 years imprisonment
R v RDH, 1991 CanLII 2476 (NS CA), per Matthews JA	NS	CA
R v Julian, 1991 CanLII 2514 (NS CA), per Hallett JA	NS	CA	4 years imprisonment
R v Porter, 1990 CanLII 2519 (NS CA), per Clarke CJ	NS	CA
R v Dzikowski, 1990 CanLII 2539 (NS CA), per Matthews JA	NS	CA	20 months imprisonment
R v Giles, , [1989] NSJ 341(*no CanLII links)	NS	PC		".A.), the accused attacked a doorman/bouncer with a bottle causing permanent injury to the victim's eye. The accused was described as mild-man-nered with no history of violence and a good employment history. In imposing a sentence of four months incarceration and two years'probation the Court of Appeal stressed that crimes of violence required an emphasis on general and specific deterrence" [1]
R v Silvea, , [1988] N.S.J. No. 327; 86 N.S.R.(2d) 346(*no CanLII links)	NS	CA	9 years imprisonment	The "victim was a pizza delivery man who was brutally assaulted by the accused with such severity that he was rendered unconscious and resulted in him being a spastic quadriplegic." [2]