Criminal Defence Law Blog
BLASPHEMY – Section 296 of the Criminal Code makes it a criminal offence to publish a blasphemous libel. It does not define “publish” and it does not define “blasphemy”. Do we even know what blasphemy is? How is this consistent with religious freedom? Why do we even have this law? By Derek James From It’s …
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“The Legal problems of Canadians are not evenly distributed. Data indicates that a large cross-section of persons who experience legal problems are among the poorest in Canadian society. Legal aid is one of the most important institutions for meeting the legal needs of the poor in Canada. Most legal aid plans, however, provide little service …
THE ASSAULT POLICE PLOY – It’s an old one. Cop assaults person and charges that person with assaulting police. So this guy was sitting in his uncle’s apartment. Cops knock on the door and tell him to turn the music down. He does so and gives his identification (?) but that’s not good enough. Cops …
What do you think of it? Also known as a bean bag gun, the sock gun is a regular shotgun that, instead of bullets, has been loaded with a kind of round that inflicts pain but does not penetrate the body. It’s referred to as an impact round.Each “bullet” contains a soft, granular material contained …
So this guy was walking down the street with his hands in his pockets to keep warm, minding his own business. Police officers stop him and demand he answer their questions. He was verbally hostile and refused to remove his hands from his pockets. Police physically forced him to do so, subdued him, handcuffed him, …
Sometimes it’s difficult to tell the good guys from the bad guys ….especially in unstable regions of the globe, especially when who is on your side is confusing and changes without notice and especially where there are all sorts of exceptions. “Attempting to select sides (good guys, bad guys) are tricky in a criminal law. …
Sometimes you need protection FROM the police. “Toronto police committed “egregious wrongful conduct” after they planted loose heroin on the centre console of a drug suspect’s car to create a pretext for searching the vehicle, a judge has found.” Just off the top of my head, these police committed the criminal offences of possession of …
More than 60 officers from the Ontario Provincial Police and the five GTA police forces — Toronto, Peel, Durham, York and Halton — have been disciplined for drinking and driving before internal police tribunals since 2010. Source: Dozens of officers from across Ontario busted for drunk driving in last five years | Toronto Star
Rape by fraud? Disrespecting someone verbally is a criminal offence of sexual violence? “Sexual violence can be understood to be any unwanted physical, verbal, emotional or spiritual act that’s carried out by sexual means or by targeting sexuality.” Spiritual act?? Emotional rape?? Do people who promote such extreme ideas like “domestic violence” is “a gender …
Decriminalization: to remove or reduce the criminal classification or status of; especially : to repeal a strict ban on while keeping under some form of regulation. Legalization: is the process of removing a legal prohibition against something which is currently not legal. There is a BIG difference. A number of prominent advocates for marijuana reform …