Criminal Defence Law Blog
We now routinely have police dash cams, in cruiser cams and police station surveillance cams. They all serve to resolve a great number of criminal trial issues. In addition, police body cams can only enhance and improve the interaction between police and citizens while saving a lot of charges and court time.
Matt Gurney: Get cameras on the police, now | National Post.
Harper “takes us back to the cruelly punitive era before rehabilitation was a goal of the system.”
Stephen Harper’s cynical crackdown on crime: Editorial | Toronto Star.
Yes they can. Although it is a search which is not lawfully authorized that constitutes an unreasonable search that violates your privacy interests, the information obtained as a result of the search will not be excluded in a trial as its admission will not bring the administration of justice into disrepute.
PROLONGED SEGREGATION – “has been found to constitute either torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.” and our jails can impose it administratively for months or years for whatever reason they want, without review. This is very wrong.
Harper’s new laws impose a mandatory minimum jail sentence of two years (!) if you sell weed in or near any public place usually frequented by persons under the age of 18 years, regardless of whether anyone else is present or not. The problem is that in our cities, where does that NOT apply other than bars and private clubs?
Drug-dealing law intended to protect minors is unconstitutional, judge decides.
Okay it’s one thing to be tough on crime but it’s another to be inhumane. After one year, the state-of-the-art infirmary and mental health unit at the new highly touted Toronto South Superjail remains closed to this day. If an inmate suffers from mental or physical illness they throw them into the “deplorable and filthy conditions” of 24 hour a day solitary confinement to rot without health care. The Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene is no better. We need to be ashamed of ourselves!
Toronto jail inmate says he was sent to solitary for having HIV | Toronto Star.
This was not a decision made by Justice Boswell, victim impact statements, pleas for mercy or justice nor submissions make any difference. This was not the maximum sentence nor the minimum sentence. There is only one sentence for first degree murder – it is mandatory – it is life in prison without eligibility for parole before 25 years. (Now check out the errors in this report.)
If you’re 17 years of age, for example, the law does not prohibit you from engaging in consensual sexual activity with your 17 year old boyfriend/girlfriend however if the two of you agree to take a nude picture of each other or a video of your sexual activity you are committing the criminal offence of possession of child pornography and if you post it on social media or text it to each other you’re committing the more serious offence of publishing child pornography, even if it’s a selfie!
Here’s the point, as true in Canada as it is in the U.S. “If we’re serious public policy people, we would let the scientist figure this out. This entire discussion should be based on science. But the laughable thing is that the government is against this type of research.”
The Impact Of Smoking Marijuana Regularly On Your Lungs, According To Science | ThinkProgress.