I’ll just put this out there, without comment. The Hospital Loophole Drunk Drivers Use as a “Get Out of Jail Free Card” | Dr. Brett Belchetz.
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Study shows ease of inducing false confessions
The danger in prosecuting historic offences is that memories can be created and manipulated. Study shows ease of inducing false confessions.
Can domestic abusers be rehabilitated? – The Globe and Mail
DOMESTIC ASSAULT – If you’ve been charged you might benefit from reading this article. “love, expressed as violence, and violence described as love” The process is “automatic laying of charges in domestic-abuse complaints, stricter jail sentences, the use of separation and restraining orders, forfeiture of parental rights, and other now-standard tools of criminal justice.” Can …
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US & THEM
US & THEM – People commonly ask me how can I defend guilty people? Firstly I am amazed that every single one of us does not have a criminal record because we have ALL transgressed the law one or more times during our lives and probably deserve one. Secondly, most of my clients are just …
POLICE BODY CAMS
We now routinely have police dash cams, in cruiser cams and police station surveillance cams. They all serve to resolve a great number of criminal trial issues. In addition, police body cams can only enhance and improve the interaction between police and citizens while saving a lot of charges and court time. Matt Gurney: Get …
Stephen Harper’s cynical crackdown on crime: Editorial | Toronto Star
Harper “takes us back to the cruelly punitive era before rehabilitation was a goal of the system.” Stephen Harper’s cynical crackdown on crime: Editorial | Toronto Star.
CAN THE POLICE OBTAIN YOUR INTERNET SUBSCRIBER INFORMATION WITHOUT A WARRANT?
Yes they can. Although it is a search which is not lawfully authorized that constitutes an unreasonable search that violates your privacy interests, the information obtained as a result of the search will not be excluded in a trial as its admission will not bring the administration of justice into disrepute. CanLII – 2014 SCC …
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PROLONGED SEGREGATION IN JAIL IS A VERY WRONG PRACTICE
PROLONGED SEGREGATION – “has been found to constitute either torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.” and our jails can impose it administratively for months or years for whatever reason they want, without review. This is very wrong. Courthouse News Service.
SELLING WEED CAN GET YOU TWO YEARS
Harper’s new laws impose a mandatory minimum jail sentence of two years (!) if you sell weed in or near any public place usually frequented by persons under the age of 18 years, regardless of whether anyone else is present or not. The problem is that in our cities, where does that NOT apply other …
THE STATE OF OUR JAILS – UNCONSCIONABLE
Okay it’s one thing to be tough on crime but it’s another to be inhumane. After one year, the state-of-the-art infirmary and mental health unit at the new highly touted Toronto South Superjail remains closed to this day. If an inmate suffers from mental or physical illness they throw them into the “deplorable and filthy …