Does an expert have a role in determining the extraordinary sentence of a curative discharge?
Nova Scotia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. MacDonald, 2018 NSPC 72 (CanLII):
However, these factual findings do not decide the ultimate issue of whether the court ought to grant the extraordinary sentence of a curative discharge. The expert does not become the court’s proxy: Keresturi v. Keresturi, 2017 ONCA 162 at para. 7.
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