Where the Crown intends to challenge a psychiatric report tendered in sentencing proceedings, it must require the expert for cross-examination; failure to do so precludes the Crown from challenging the sentencing judge's reliance on the report on appeal. A sentencing judge does not err in fully suspending a sentence for social security fraud where the offender's psychiatric illness, combined with other mitigating factors, justifies that course.
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