What is the impact of an extensive period of time being AWOL from the process of the court?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Cooper, 2015 NSPC 3 (CanLII):
As our Court of Appeal outlined in R v. Cromwell,[1] an extensive period of time being AWOL from the process of the court is a factor that the court may take into account in ascertaining whether an offender might be a good candidate for a community based sentence, a type of sentence which typically obligates the offender to show up where and when ordered by the court or a sentence supervisor.
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