R. v. Hovind, [2000] (Sask. Q.B. QB00257), on-line: CanLII CASE On the nights of April 28 and 29, Jerod Hovind and two of his friends went to two Saskatchewan farms and broke into several buildings. They stole nu- 1. Discuss why the judge wanted to give Hovind merous power tools and vandalized the fuel tanks. At one farm they drove a a jail sentence. truck, a tractor, and another vehicle around the farm, damaging a tree and the 2. Should the pre- vehicles. They were subsequently charged and convicted of two counts of sentence reports of theft and break and enter. the co-offenders be After reading the statements contained in the pre-sentence reports of the used as the basis for two co-offenders, the judge had this to say about Hovind: sentencing Hovind? Explain. Having read these reports ... I think I want to send your client [ Hovind] to jail. Because of him, there are two other people here who have a criminal record who would not have otherwise had a criminal record. They were with him. They were in his car. He was driving. He took them there. It was his idea. He was leading and if anybody here should go to jail so that this kind of thing stops happening, it should be him. The judge passed sentence, relying on the statements contained in the co-offenders' pre-sentence reports