In 2020, a panel of three judges found both decisions flawed for different reasons. The judges who originally sentenced them ruled Canada's four-year minimum sentences violated their Charter rights against cruel and unusual punishment, but the Crown appealed those decisions. In Ookowt's case, the bullet missed someone by inches in Itturiligaq's case, the home was unoccupied.
Ookowt's and Itturiligaq's charges both involved firing a bullet into a home in Baker Lake and Kimmirut, Nunavut, respectively. They were seeking to appeal that decision to the Supreme Court of Canada.Īt the time, mandatory minimums meant judges were supposed to impose sentences of at least four years for some firearms offences. The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear an appeal that would have challenged mandatory firearm sentencing in Nunavut.Ĭedric Ookowt and Simeonie Itturiligaq both had their original sentences doubled by the Nunavut Court of Appeal in 2020 because their initial sentences of two years less a day were lighter than the law required. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press - image credit) The Supreme Court of Canada is pictured on Feb.
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