Criminal Defence Law Blog
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 …
Continue reading “Former GTA stripper acquitted of concealing dead baby’s body | Toronto Star”
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading “Somebody in this government needs to go back to law school”
“The young men who are vilified as non-contributing members of society are not the problem, they’re the solution. Being “tough on crime” is not the solution, it’s the problem! A Chance to Go From Hard Lives to Healing – NYTimes.com.
This is an extremely important point! “More than 75,000 prosecutions every year are based entirely on the recollections of others. While perjury is a felony, the overwhelming majority of eyewitness errors aren’t conscious or intentional. Rather, they’re the inevitable side effects of the remembering process.” Most of us don’t know or believe that eyewitness accounts …
Previously we have been blogging about some of the basic elements of criminal law including offences and defences so that people charged with offences and looking for a criminal lawyer to represent them could become better informed about what they’ve got themselves into. There is, of course, a limited amount of information that can be …