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The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal has reinstated the conviction of a Regina police officer who kicked a partially blind and homeless man outside a detox centre.

Const. Robert Kenneth Power was found guilty of assault causing bodily harm in 2014 and given a conditional discharge with a year of probation.

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The incident involving Edward Stonechild in May, 2012 was caught on a security camera outside the downtown centre.

Power was fired in 2014 but was reinstated later that year after his provincial court conviction was overturned in Court of Queen’s Bench.

The Crown appealed and the provincial high court ruled Tuesday to reinstate the guilty verdict.

Power will now face a sentencing hearing before the original trial judge.

According to appeal court documents, Power noticed Stonechild while on patrol and believed he was intoxicated. He told him to go to the Brief Detox Centre or risk being arrested.