Key legal question
Whether the constitutional complaint could be used to challenge the sentencing court's refusal to apply the revised Criminal Code and conditional sentence rules.
Extracted holding
That argument raised a question of federal law, not a subsidiary constitutional complaint issue; the constitutional complaint was not admissible on that point.
Extracted reasoning
A violation of federal law must be raised by nullity appeal; the complaint in substance attacked the application of federal law and only indirectly invoked constitutional and ECHR guarantees.