Criminal Defence Law Blog
THE HARPER “WAR ON CRIME” HURTS US ALL – “The Correctional Service of Canada (CSC), once recognized as a world leader in research and practice, is now lagging far behind many other systems through its more punitive approach to the management of offenders. To see proof of the failure of strategies like those being pursued …
Continue reading “Oades: Tories’ approach to corrections endangers prisoners, public”
This causes me concern. Parents of a 21 year old call police because they’re concerned he has become radicalized. Police arrest him as a “preventative measure”, search his house and find a map that has 4 local police stations marked. He made no threats and has no history of criminal conduct. He is charged under …
Continue reading “PREVENTATIVE ARREST – Minority Reportesque”
Don’t think that because you haven’t done anything wrong you don’t have to worry about being physically abused by the police. That is just not the reality. (Read the article.) Before we had the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982 nobody policed the police. Now it falls to the Judges to do this. “It …
Continue reading “WHO IS POLICING THE POLICE? JUDGES (And they may not be doing such a good job.)”
Did you know? It has been a long time now that in Canada, in order to accommodate abortion as not being murder (or infanticide) we legally define a foetus as not being a human being. It can have some unintended consequences. Woman Seven Months Pregnant Killed, But Canada Says Her Unborn Baby Molly Isn’t a …
Criminal defence lawyer AND wedding planner. She has 2 jobs?? When you get in trouble choose a lawyer who only has one job and will at LEAST show up for you. Lawyer convicted, fined for criminal contempt of court | Toronto Star.
This article explains it well. “Our criminal justice system is almost exclusively a system of plea bargaining, negotiated behind closed doors with no judicial oversight. The outcome is largely determined by the prosecutor alone” who because of MMS and ability to shape the charges can effectively dictate the sentence. It is one sided, secret, evaporates …
Continue reading “MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES – WHY SHOULD I CARE?”
We have judges to pass judgement and sentence upon those who have broken the law AND to protect all of us by controlling the excessive and unjust use of governmental authority and power. By removing power from judges through the use of mandatory minimum sentences and orders and handing the decision making ability to prosecutors …
The Supreme Court of Canada today decided it was lawful for police to conduct a limited search of a cell phone, without a warrant, as an incident of arrest. What is important to note is that the subject cell phone was not password protected nor otherwise locked. I foresee the case in the near future …
In view of the recent controversies, if you’ve wondered just what a grand jury is, here is a simple explanation of what they are and why they’re unjust. Abolish grand juries: Justice for Eric Garner and Michael Brown..
After all, it’s only weed, his conduct was not dangerous or anti-social and the law is an ass. In this case the Federal Prosecutor permitted a plea to trafficking instead of production, otherwise the Judge would be required to impose the Harper mandatory minimum jail sentence of at least ONE YEAR. This is an example …
Continue reading “WE NOW HAVE TO RELY UPON FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FOR JUSTICE”