My advice is always the same – NEVER EVER give a statement to the police or submit to a polygraph test. Police train in interrogation techniques that include lying, coercion, persuasion and minimization which induce false confessions. A study has shown that whenever a confession was involved, every juror voted guilty, regardless of alibis and …
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“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” A Line Misinterpreted – New York Times
Pet peeve: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” I don’t think this means what you’ve always thought it means. ‘Kill the Lawyers,’ A Line Misinterpreted – New York Times.
FBI Director James Comey: Apple, Android Phones’ Security Measures Risk Lives
Twisted authoritarian mentality: keeping your private personal confidential information private allows you to hold yourself beyond the law. It’s like police requiring you to keep the front door of your house unlocked and open in case they want to come in and search it without a warrant. It’s one good reason to consider Apple or …
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Former GTA stripper acquitted of concealing dead baby’s body | Toronto Star
When you define a human being as we do in s. 223 of our criminal code as a child who has “completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother”, it has certain consequences. One such result is that “any woman can destroy her near-term or term fetus and can induce an …
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Cops Escape Charges For Killing Walmart Shopper Holding A BB Gun Sold At The Store | ThinkProgress
What it takes to get shot by police in the States: 1 being black 2 shopping at Walmart. Cops Escape Charges For Killing Walmart Shopper Holding A BB Gun Sold At The Store | ThinkProgress.
Video Shows South Carolina Cop Shooting Black Man Without Any Apparent Provocation | ThinkProgress
What it takes to get shot by police in the States: 1 being black 2 possible driving violation 3 obeying police orders. Video Shows South Carolina Cop Shooting Black Man Without Any Apparent Provocation | ThinkProgress.
NYPD Officer Allegedly Caught On Video Throwing Pregnant Woman To the Ground | Mother Jones
A little bit of power, unrestrained … is a violent and ugly thing. These days we have video in our defence. Every interaction with police should be on video. NYPD Officer Allegedly Caught On Video Throwing Pregnant Woman To the Ground | Mother Jones.
Christie Blatchford: Ban on naming of well-known child porn victim seems ludicrous, but it’s the right call | National Post
We have a saying that bad cases make bad law. “When judges stretch the law to accommodate the needs of individual cases they risk creating precedents that are not what anyone intended.” On the other hand, unyielding laws require unyielding decisions. This is why we advocate against zero tolerance laws without a relief valve for …
U.S. pushes for cross-border officers to be exempt from Canadian law: RCMP memo – The Globe and Mail
I don’t know if this is still under discussion but it’s bad thinking. The U.S. wants its border officers to operate in Canada and be exempt from Canadian criminal law. The U.S. sought similar agreements from Iraq and Afghanistan for it’s military soldiers. The problem with this idea is that it fails to distinguish between …
Somebody in this government needs to go back to law school
I’ve said a lot against the Harper Government “tough on crime” agenda. “The track record of the Harper government’s crime agenda reads like the ancient Greek myth of the hydra: For each unconstitutional law the courts cut down, two new laws — equally stupid — grow in its place.” It looks like I’m going to …
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