Criminal Code, section 270(1)
Assaulting a peace officer
What the law says
- Maximum
- 5 years
- Mandatory minimum
- No mandatory minimum
- Kind of offence
- Violent
- Prosecuted
- By indictment or summary conviction
3 cases with this offence
- November 7, 202320 months (600 days) custody, consecutive on the two counts, satisfied by 600 days of pre-sentence credit (one day plus time served), then 18 months probation
- April 25, 2023480 days jail on each count, concurrent, less 479 days pre-sentence credit; remaining day served by attendance in court; lifetime s. 109 prohibition
- April 20, 2023R. v. Thibault, 2023 NSPC 22
- On release at the time
14 months custody (concurrent 6 months and 30 days on other counts), then 24 months probation