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REVENGE PORN = BAD IDEA
https://www.thewhig.com/news/local-news/local-man-guilty-of-sharing-then-wifes-intimate-photos-with-online-stranger/wcm/cd59b5ad-e970-47ae-8d9e-7ad6a7281c4f?video_autoplay=true
DYNAMIC ENTRY or a NO KNOCK WARRANT – By design, they are high-risk violent assaults.
IN THE OLD DAYS, when cops found weed in your car they’d charge you with possession of a controlled substance. NOW they charge you with impaired driving. IN THE OLD DAYS cops needed a reasonable suspicion to demand a breath sample. NOW breath demands are mandatory and arbitrary.
The Milton courthouse is closed. Milton’s beleaguered courthouse was surviving the pandemic. It couldn’t survive mould.
ENHANCED DESIGNATION OF COUNSEL – NEW CRIMINAL COURT PROCEDURE – All criminal law practitioners must read and understand the Practice Direction of the Chief Justice.
Education and prevention.
“Brampton woman livid Ontario courts reducing ‘less serious’ impaired driving charges amid COVID-19 backlog.”
There are strict guidelines about when a careless driving charge can be offered to resolve an impaired/80+ charge and the terms of the sentence are significant.
A MADE IN CANADA MODEL
Decriminalization or legalization? “A Canadian approach, in short—recognizing that Portugal’s model is now 20 years old and that thinking has moved forward dramatically—might go far beyond Portugal by dismantling the sustaining structures of racialized prohibition.”
WHY ARE THE POLICE STILL CHARGING?
“As long as police can arrest a youth and lay the charge of simple possession, the health risks we’ve each seen in social work, the emergency room and legal aid will remain unchanged.” https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/local-news/canada-simple-drug-possession-should-be-treated-as-a-health-issue-not-a-criminal-one-experts-say-2716619