2019 QCCA 645, 2019 QCCA 645

R. c. Byrne 2019 QCCA 645 COURT OF APPEAL CANADA PROVINCE OF QUEBEC REGISTRY OF MONTREAL No: 500-10-006881-187 (450-73-000937-163) MINUTES OF THE HEARING DATE: April 4, 2019 CORAM: THE HONOURABLE JACQUES CHAMBERLAND, J.A. SUZANNE GAGNÉ, J.A. STEPHEN W. HAMILTON, J.A. APPELLANT COUNSEL HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN Mtre ANDRÉANE CÔTÉ ( Service des poursuites pénales du Canada ) RESPONDENT COUNSEL THOMAS JEFFRY BYRNE Mtre CHARLES SHEARSON Mtre MARC-OLIVIER PERRON (Walsh Shearson) On appeal from a sentence rendered on September 17, 2018 by the Honourable Justice Charles Ouellet of the Superior Court, District of Saint-François.

DESCRIPTION : Sentence – Referred Motion for leave to appeal. Clerk: Mai Nguyen Courtroom: Pierre-Basile-Mignault (RC-08) HEARING 10 :36 Commencement of the hearing. Identification of counsel. Submissions by Mtre Côté. 10:39 Exchanges between the Court and Mtre Côté. 10:45 Mtre Côté submits an additional authority. 10:54 Recess of the hearing. 10:58 Resumption of the hearing. The Court informs Mtre Shearson that he need not present his oral arguments. 10:59 BY THE COURT : Judgment - See page 3. Conclusion of the hearing.

Mai Nguyen Clerk BY THE COURT JUDGMENT [ 1 ] The Court is of the view that, on the whole of the record, it cannot be seriously argued that the sentencing judge erred in principle or imposed a manifestly unfit sentence. [ 2 ] For these reasons, the Motion for leave to appeal is DISMISSED. JACQUES CHAMBERLAND, J.A. SUZANNE GAGNÉ, J.A.

STEPHEN W. HAMILTON, J.A.