Ryan Dickinson has been sentenced to 17 months in jail for his part in the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot of June 15, 2011.

The sentence was handed down Thursday in Vancouver.

Crown prosecutors had asked the court for a sentence as long as 18 months because Dickinson, who was 20 at the time of the incident, was on bail in connection with an assault charge when he threw a newspaper box onto a police car windshield and later smashed a clothing store window.

Dickinson’s lawyer had asked for a sentence of one year.

The sentence for his involvement in the riot was 16 months and B.C. provincial court Judge Malcolm MacLean added one more month for the breach of bail conditions.

Dickinson was given 3.5 months credit for his time in pretrial custody.

In passing the sentence, MacLean said Dickinson was not alone in wrecking unmarked police cars, but he was one of the leaders and may have spurred others.

Dickinson’s lawyer had said in a pre-sentence hearing that Dickinson had got “caught up in the moment” during the riot.

But Maclean said Thursday that evidence did not show Dickinson got caught up in a momentary lapse of judgment and that his actions were conscious and deliberate.

Dickinson had choices and had a chance to walk away many times, but did not, MacLean said.

Dickinson, of Coquitlam, B.C., pleaded guilty in January to taking part in the riot that swept through downtown Vancouver after the seventh game of the Stanley Cup finals, which the Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins.

To date, a total of 350 charges have been recommended against 125 accused. The Crown has approved 129 criminal charges against 47 of the suspected rioters.

(Source: Yahoo!)