An early offer to plead guilty to a lesser charge on an inaccurate factual basis that minimises culpability does not constitute a plea at the first reasonable opportunity, even where the Crown does not accept the plea to the lesser charge until shortly before trial. Prison assaults resulting from an offender's co-operation with authorities, even if not directly caused by the offending, may be taken into account as hardship in custody without resolving whether they constitute extra-curial punishment in the Daetz sense.
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