The Late Guilty Plea
The timing of a
guilty plea affects its impact in mitigation.
A plea entered at
the last minute before the trial is not deserving of as much consideration as
one that was entered promptly.
R. v. O. (C.), 2008 ONCA 518, 91 O.R. (3d) 528, at paras. 16‑17;
R. v. Wright, 2013 ABCA 428, 566 A.R.
192, at para. 12.
The trial judge
was right to attach less weight to the remorse expressed by the accused and to
his guilty plea because of the lateness of that plea.
R. v. Lacasse, 2015 SCC 64, [2015] 3 S.C.R. 1089 at para 81.
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