Author archives: Dennis Reeve

WHEN JUDGES CRITICIZE POLICE CONDUCT (#1) – “It is difficult to avoid a suspicion and conclusion that the officer’s groundless targeting of the defendant for investigation was racially infected. There is no other valid explanation for his actions.”

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/gta-cop-had-absolutely-no-grounds-for-racially-infected-confrontation-judge-rules-tossing-gun-charges/article_94016ea6-bbb8-11ee-8dd6-af2fdd431dab.html?source=newsletter&utm_content=a01&utm_source=ts_sa&utm_medium=email&utm_email=0B41BB051FF7EA38DB4BDD5E33BA3AB2&utm_campaign=police_208046

HOW IS OUR BAIL SYSTEM BROKEN? – With 82 percent of all Ontario prison inmates are being held without bail, the system seems to be cooking along just fine. “We have more people in our provincial jails who are supposed to be considered legally innocent than who have been convicted or found guilty and sentenced to be there,” 

https://www.cp24.com/news/the-vast-majority-of-people-in-ontario-jails-last-year-were-awaiting-a-trial-data-shows-1.6748052

A WISE MOVE – “Justice Michael Wendl of the Ontario Court of Justice walked back what is being called an unprecedented, heavy-handed and illegal contempt of court citation against a local lawyer on Tuesday.” I don’t believe this will or should alleviate a complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council for threatening a lawyer.

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/contempt-citation-dropped-against-hamilton-lawyer/article_bdc295d4-97a4-50e4-a269-b46e14b9ffb8.html

JURY DUTY IS NO WALK IN THE PARK – “For most citizens figuratively plucked off the street to serve as jurors, being plonked down in a courtroom and experiencing a real blood-and-guts murder trial can be jarring. It’s one thing to sit back with a bag of popcorn and enjoy a Hollywood slasher movie, quite another to delve, in sometimes excruciating and bloody detail, into a horrific crime committed in your own community, at a location you might know and where you, your family and friends might even frequent.”

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/its-not-like-tv-canadian-courtroom-jury-duty-can-exact-a-heavy-toll

IS THE DECISION TO DEPORT MR. SIDHU A REFLECTION OF OUR VALUES AS A SOCIETY? “Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was handed an eight-year sentence in 2019 after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm in the Saskatchewan crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 others. He was new to truck driving and had been on the job less than a month before the tragedy. In a federal court ruling released on Thursday, a judge denied Sidhu’s request to set aside a March 2022 Canada Border Services Agency decision calling for his deportation. Sidhu is a permanent resident, and under federal law, can be subject to deportation in the instance of a serious criminal offence. He was granted parole earlier this year.” (Josh Lynn CTV)

https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/federal-judge-upholds-deportation-order-against-trucker-in-humboldt-broncos-bus-crash-1.6687447