Criminal Defence Law Blog
If you’re stopped by police and you blow a warn (over .05 blood alcohol concentration) or fail (over .08 BAC) on an approved screening device the police officer will suspend your driver’s license for 3 or 90 days respectively – whether you’re guilty of an offence or not and without a trial to determine it. …
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The vast majority of our criminal court judges are good, intelligent, knowledgeable, caring individuals who do an excellent job of balancing the interests of society with the circumstances of the individuals who appear before them. This is but one example. Our judges not only protect us from criminal conduct but they are also our last …
“The majority ruling highlights how deeply at odds the government is with the country’s highest court. Since 2006, the Conservatives have created 60 mandatory minimum jail terms for guns, drugs, sex offences and other crimes, according to the justice department, helping to boost the number of federal prisoners to record heights even as crime rates …
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As fast as the Supreme Court strikes down Harper’s mandatory minimum jail sentences, Harper enacts new ones. This time for tobacco. As “Our Government is encouraged by the latest statistics which show smoking rates at 15%, representing a historic low”… it is necessary to take “serious action in order to protect Canadians and their families” …
Jail, jail and more jail is Prime Minister Harper’s manic response to problems that don’t exist. Thank goodness we have the Supreme Court to protect us from the onslaught of this man’s draconian laws. “The ruling said the mandatory minimum sentence could ensnare people with “little or no moral fault” and who pose “little or …
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Many Ontario Court of Justice Judges are opposed to the Victim Surcharge Harper recently made mandatory because it is a fine levied upon every criminal conviction without regard to the person’s ability to pay. It is a disproportionate punishment upon the poor. A Superior Court Judge has now ruled that it’s okay because it’s not …
PERSONALITY MATTERS TO CLIENTS – Particularly in the criminal law field, clients come to us under a great deal of stress. They’re in our office because they have to be, not because they want to be. A client is risking a great deal in his/her choice of lawyer to represent them. They are investing a …
A leader’s attitude trickles down to the rank and file. When we have one very senior Toronto Police Service officer arrogantly and defiantly thundering that when he detains a law abiding person, he is the authority and “he doesn’t need to give a reason for his detention of a citizen” this disrespectful, bullying attitude is …
“In essence, officers go on a fishing expedition, ask seemingly innocuous questions of citizens, record the information in a database, keep it indefinitely, use it in future investigations, and allow it to sometimes show up in police checks requested by employers.” The police attitude: “One very senior officer reportedly thundered that he is the authority; …
Not only did this police officer murder a “nice, good, honest, hard working person” but then he lied about what happened. This is why ideas like “administrative penalties” and “immediate roadside prohibitions” are a bad idea – because it makes cops the sole investigator, detainer, fact finder, judge, jury and instant executioner. How true in …
Continue reading “LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE – COPS KILL AND LIE”