When assessing sentence adequacy on a Crown appeal, the appellate court will have close regard to the consequences of prosecutorial choices in framing charges, and sentences for more serious offences requiring proof of additional elements (such as kidnapping requiring proof of intent) are not appropriate benchmarks for lesser included or alternative offences (such as deprivation of liberty) that do not require proof of those elements.
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