What is the test for admitting to a charge of sexual assault where the offender was sober and intentionally engaged in a course of conduct to avoid apprehension by the police?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from R v Shular, 2014 ABCA 241 (CanLII):
See The Queen v. Shore, [1999] O.J. No. 1545, ¶20 (Ct. Just. Prov. Div.) (the court acknowledged that the offender was sober and “deliberately engaged in a course of conduct to avoid apprehension by the police”).
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