Where a sentencing court erroneously rejects a plea of guilty due to confusion at the Bar table and the Crown successfully appeals, the appellate court on resentencing should not impose a sentence more severe than that which the Crown had accepted would have been appropriate at the original hearing, applying double jeopardy principles. The Court emphasised this outcome was specific to the extraordinary circumstances and should not be treated as a sentencing precedent for protection order breaches.
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