R v N.Z., 2026 ABKB (unreported)
On summary conviction appeal, Cateline successfully argued that the trial judge had improperly cut off her lawyer's cross-examination and overturned her conviction for careless driving causing death.
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R v R.L.W., 2025 SCC
Stacey and Emma successfully obtained leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, which is only granted in <5% of applications, to get the chance to restore their client’s trial acquittal.
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R v S.S., 2024 ABCA 356
Following complicated submissions involving criminal and civil law, the Court allowed Cateline's conviction appeal and entered acquittals on 7 of 9 counts and ordered a new trial for the remaining 2 counts.
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R v J.M., 2024 ABCA 345
Following her first appearance at the Court of Appeal as a Student, Emma convinced the Court to reduce her client's jail sentence of 8 years to 5 years on a serious dangerous driving causing death case.
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R v C.J., 2024 ABCA 258
After winning a contested time extension application, 12-years post-verdict, the Crown consented to overturning a wrongful NCR verdict, freeing Stacey and Emma's client from Alberta Hospital Edmonton.
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R v M.N., 2023 ABKB 567
Cateline successfully argued for a substituted verdict of acquittal on appeal, saving the client the stress and expense of a retrial, based on a complex evidentiary issue in an alleged parental child abduction case.
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R v S.H., 2022 ABCA 411
After initially having been denied bail pending appeal by a single justice of the ABCA, Stacey’s client was released following a rare Appellate Court Bail Review proceeding before 3 Judges of the Court of Appeal.
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R v S.G., 2022 ABCA 96
In the first case at the Alberta Court of Appeal dealing with COVID and trial delays, Stacey persuaded a panel of three justices to restore her client's stay of proceedings. In doing so, they held that, while COVID was an exceptional circumstance, the Crown still had to mitigate the delay.
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