Home detention is not an appropriate sentencing option for dangerous driving causing death involving significant criminal culpability such as failure to keep a proper lookout, applying R v Jurisic principles. However, where a Crown appeal is delayed by systemic failures and the respondent has nearly completed the sentence, the Everett v R double jeopardy discretion may be exercised to refuse leave notwithstanding demonstrated error.
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