Court Overturns Decision by Brampton Judge Not to Sentence Five-Time Convicted Impaired Driver to Jail

Court overturns decision by Brampton judge not to sentence five-time convicted impaired driver to jail

The decision of a Brampton judge not to hand down the required four-month jail sentence to a man who had been convicted of his fifth impaired driving offence was “an affront to the administration of justice,” a superior court judge wrote in her decision overturning the ruling.

Conditional sentence for man convicted of impaired driving for a fifth time blasted by judge as an ‘affront to the administration of justice’

The appellate judge imposed a mandatory four-month jail sentence on the offender, calling it “an extremely lenient sentence” under the circumstances.