Source: How weekend-only jail sentences can cause security risks, overcrowding – Valliant News
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THE TEXTALYZER – This is the interface where technology directly challenges privacy rights (or in other words where the rubber meets the road). It is an ever-changing landscape.
A Toronto lawyer and prominent road safety advocate is pushing Ontario to implement a controversial technology that would allow police to test cellphones at the side of the road to see if drivers are using them behind the wheel. The device is called the Textalyzer, and the technology is being debated in several U.S. cities.Its developer, Israeli-based Cellebrite, said… …
WARNING – To those who choose to steal from donation boxes now, at Christmas or at any time be forewarned that if convicted there is a high probability that you will have direct transportation to our local correctional center.
With October coming to an end and Canada stepping into November, it’s officially the right time to start wearing a poppy to remember the sacrifices made by countless Canadian veterans. The Canadian Legion has poppy pins in donation boxes across the country, and while most people pay the proper respect to the symbol, there have …
FAILURE – “the essential prerequisite for success”.
Scientists use big data to understand what separates winners from losers Source: Failure Found to be an “Essential Prerequisite” For Success
FIVE MEN ACQUITTED OF RAPE BECAUSE THE UNCONSCIOUS TEEN DIDN’T FIGHT BACK. It sounds outrageous to us and is clearly a fault in their definition of consent. In Spain, in order to be the offence of rape, there must be some form of violence or intimidation. In order words, there must be some resistance to indicate lack of consent. In Canada, (where rape has been replaced with sexual assault) it is the opposite in that there has to be a positive expression of consent.
A court in Barcelona cleared five men of sexual assault charges on Thursday after saying the crime did not fit the legal definition of rape because the unconscious teenage victim didn’t fight back. Source: Five men acquitted of rape because unconscious teen victim didn’t fight back
Why Do Nonlawyers Think They Are Legal Experts? – I read it on the internet.
People should recognize that certain opinions can only soundly be made by legal professionals. Source: Why Do Nonlawyers Think They Are Legal Experts?
NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE (known as NCR or the INSANITY DEFENCE) – Here is an explanation of what it really means and it’s not really a defence.
Source: Not Criminally Responsible | The Local
Criminal Code changes further complicate, delay historical Nova Scotia sex-offence case – It will take years to sort out the recent changes to the Criminal Code.
Michael Patrick McNutt was a volunteer coach in the 1980s and was employed as a teacher with the former Halifax Regional School Board until the mid-1990s. Source: Criminal Code changes further complicate, delay historical Nova Scotia sex-offence case
PRESUMPTIVE DRUG FIELD TESTS, FALSE POSITIVES AND INCARCERATION – Although we don’t use these cheap drug tests in Canada the equipment we do use is not free of false positives. Let’s learn from others’ experiences.
Donut crumbs also once tested positive for meth. Source: This $2 Test Identified Bird Shit as Cocaine. Cops Keep Using It to Arrest People.
IS EXTREME INTOXICATION A DEFENCE? – It hasn’t been for 25 years but it may be again.
Several provinces are examining the constitutionality of a thorny area of the criminal code Source: Charter issues come to fore on defence of extreme cases of intoxication