Windsor Court Report

Admitted CSO breach

A Windsor man has received more conditions on his conditional sentence order (CSO) after admitting he committed a breach last month.

Adam David Chambers, 21, admitted in Windsor provincial court Tuesday, Dec. 16 to breaching his one-year CSO Nov. 13 by failing to comply with residential conditions and a ban on him possessing or consuming alcoholic beverages.

Judge Claudine MacDonald added conditions including having no contact with a specific person or attend that person’s home, to move to a Wolfville location and have telephone access. Chambers had been in remand since just after the breach.

The court had imposed the CSO July 3 for a number of offenses including assault causing bodily harm, threats, possession of stolen property, and probation and undertaking breaches.

Chambers committed the offenses in Hants and Kings counties in 2007 and 2008.

Three times the limit

The court has imposed a fine on a Hantsport resident for having care and control of a motor vehicle while his blood-alcohol readings were more than thrice the legal limit.

William Lawrence LeCouteur, 53, pleaded guilty to the charge Tuesday, Dec. 9.

Judge Alan Tufts fined LeCouteur $1,600 plus a $240 victim surcharge, or 28 days in custody on willful default.

The judge also prohibited LeCouteur from driving in Canada for a year, a ban the Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match.

LeCouteur committed the offense in Hantsport Oct. 27 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 270 and 270 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

The legal limit is 80 mg/100 ml and the Criminal Code allows for heavier penalties in those breathalyzer convictions in which readings exceed 160 mg/100 ml, or other aggravating factors.

Had readings twice the limit

River John, Pictou County resident Braden Munro Wulf, 21, pleaded guilty Dec. 9 to driving while his blood-alcohol readings exceed the 80-mg/100-ml limit, and to failing to comply with a court undertaking condition to refrain from possessing or consuming alcoholic beverages or other intoxicants.

For the breathalyzer offense, Judge Tufts fined Wulf $1,250 plus a $187.50 victim surcharge, or 22 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for a year.

The Motor Vehicles Registry will ban Wulf from driving in the province for at least a year.

The judge fined Wulf $150 plus a $22.50 victim surcharge, or two days in custody, for the undertaking breach.

Wulf committed the offenses in Windsor Oct. 17 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 170 and 170 mg/100 ml, more than twice the legal limit.

Refused to provide breath sample

Falmouth resident Dewayne Anthony Kennedy, 33, pleaded guilty Dec. 9 to refusing to provide a breath sample for blood-alcohol analysis, and to failing to comply with a court undertaking not to possess or consume alcoholic beverages.

For the refusal, Judge Tufts fined Kennedy $1,250, or 19 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for 18 months, a ban the Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match.

The judge fined Kennedy $150, or two days in custody, for the undertaking breach.

Kennedy committed the offenses in Windsor Aug. 31.

Fined for refusal

Centre Burlington resident Troy Jason Lunn, 37, pleaded guilty Monday, Dec. 15 to refusing to provide a breath sample for blood-alcohol analysis.

Judge Claudine MacDonald fined Lunn $1,000 plus a $150 victim surcharge, or 17 days in custody on willful default, and imposed a one-year Canada-wide driving ban on him.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles will ban Lunn from driving in the province for at least that long.

Lunn committed the refusal in Windsor Nov. 11, 2005. The matter was set for trial Dec. 15, after a number of adjournments, but Lunn pleaded guilty.

Drove with illegal levels

Falmouth resident Stephen David Kunzli, 44, pleaded guilty Dec. 15 to driving while his blood-alcohol readings exceeded the 80-mg/100-ml legal limit.

Judge MacDonald fined Kunzli $800 plus a $120 victim surcharge, or 14 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for a year, a ban the Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match. Kunzli committed the offense in Windsor Nov. 25, 2005 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 130 and 110 mg/100 ml.

A number of trail dates had been set on the matter since the charge was laid, but Kunzli pleaded guilty on the last one.

Fined for MVA alcohol offense

Windsor resident Matthew Evan Cox, 18, pleaded guilty Dec. 16 to being a new driver in care and control of a vehicle while he had alcohol in his blood, contrary to the Nova Scotia Motor Vehicles Act (MVA). He requested a remission of penalty.

Not granting the remission, Judge MacDonald fined Cox $250 plus a $37.50 victim surcharge and $107 in costs, and suspended his license from Dec. 16-23.

Cox committed the offense on Highway 1 in Mount Uniacke Aug. 24.