Martin Tremblay appeals dangerous offender designation

A British Columbia man who plied two teenage girlswith drugs and alcohol, sexually assaulted them and failed tointervene as they died is appealing his dangerous offender
designation.

Martin Tremblay of Richmond was handed an indeterminate prisonsentence in December for his role in the deaths of 17-year-oldMartha Jackson and 16-year-old Kayla Lalonde.

Tremblay was convicted of criminal negligence causing the girls'deaths after he invited them to his home, gave them drugs andalcohol until they passed out and videotaped himself sexuallyassaulting them in March 2010.

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The sex offender failed to help the girls when their conditions deteriorated and drove Lalonde to Burnaby, where he left her on the ground, before Jackson stopped breathing at his home the next morning.

Tremblay is appealing his sentence on the grounds the dangerousoffender designation is overbroad and violates his charter rights.

His appeal references the case of Donald Boutilier, where a B.C.Supreme Court Justice ruled such a provision is unconstitutional,but B.C.'s Criminal Justice Branch is appealing the ruling.