The former clerk of the B.C. legislature to serve house arrest
Associate Chief Justice Heather Holmes sentenced James to three months, imprisonment but to be served in his home.
Holmes says because of the nature of the offence, a conditional discharge would be contrary to the public interest. James must serve the first month of his term under 24-hour house arrest and the next two months at home between the hours and 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. The Crown had asked for a jail term of up to a year, while the defence wanted James to be given 12-months probation and a conditional sentence.
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