The County Court sentenced a 22-year-old offender for home invasion and criminal damage, imposing 131 days' imprisonment (equivalent to pre-sentence detention already served) on the home invasion and a 12-month Community Correction Order on the criminal damage. The Court applied Akoka principles, treating 131 days in residential rehabilitation as a punitive consequence, and gave significant weight to youthful offender principles given the offender's demonstrated rehabilitation steps. The Court indicated that but for the guilty plea, a sentence of 18 months' imprisonment with a 9-month non-parole period would have been imposed.
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