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Source: Why plea bargains can be a deal with the devil

A short video that describes why treating addiction as a criminal rather than social welfare issue has failed.

Everything we thought we knew about addiction is wrong. This video is adapted from Johann Hari’s New York Times best-selling book ‘Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.’ Most people believe that addiction only stems from the drugs themselves. This, however, is far from the truth. In the video, […]

Source: This Brilliant Animated Video Will Forever Change Your Views on Addiction · The Mind Unleashed

“Obama was a visionary. He has “passed the torch” that we as lawyers have a duty to keep lit.” “How we treat those who have made mistakes speaks to who we are as a society and is a statement about our values — about our dedication to fairness, equality and justice, about how to protect our families and communities from harm, heal after loss and trauma and lift back up those among us who have earned a chance at redemption.”

 

Source: A meadow of hope as we say goodbye to Barack Obama

Even though he wasn’t a lawyer this reflects badly on all lawyers. “The belief that you can change the facts is something that lawyers should guard against, because the truth at the end of the day is the only thing we have to work with,”

Source: Jail for firm employee who faked being lawyer

There is a lot of information here about the operations of our courts. It’s interesting to note that 86.4% of all cases are resolved without setting a trial date and of those trials scheduled 66.5% do not for whatever reason actually have a trial.

http://www.ontariocourts.ca/ocj/files/stats/crim-mod/2016-Q3-Crim-Mod.pdf

An informed client is a good client and we strive to educate and inform ours but don’t confuse your google search or steps to justice search with my legal degree, decades of experience and personal connections.

 

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With the YRP wanting to publish names of persons charged with impaired driving to shame them, we should see more of this published. “In August 2015, Petrie was convicted of four misconduct charges under Ontario’s Police Services Act in connection to the loss of his Toronto police service weapon — a gun believed to have been stolen from the trunk of his car while he shopped at Home Depot and the LCBO, or while the car was parked on the street outside his home.” Now he “is facing impaired driving charges after being involved in a single vehicle collision while off-duty.”

It’s the second time in the last two years that Sgt. Kyle Petrie has been before the Toronto police disciplinary tribunal.

Source: Toronto police officer who lost gun now faces drunk driving charge | Toronto Star

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