GENERATING FALSE MEMORIES is not very difficult. What is difficult is responding to false memories that allege a past criminal offence as the maker of them is genuinely convinced they are real past events and that belief creates credibility. Since the false event is in the past there is usually no objective evidence capable of refuting it. That’s when you really need a lawyer experienced in this.
EQUALITY IN SEXTING?
Adults can forward sexts — sexualized messages or images of peers — they’ve received to others without facing criminal charges however if a youth does the same with their peers they’re committing the criminal offences of possessing and distributing child pornography – and will suffer the stigma of being pedophiles. Do you think this is equal treatment before the law?
Judge won’t hear teen’s challenge on whether her sexting constitutes child porn.
Ontario review of psychiatric wait times in jail kept secret | Toronto Star
This is about how we treat the severely mentally ill, the most vulnerable and helpless members of our society and whether we chose to imprison them and place them in solitary confinement to control them or provide them with the health care they need. The fact that the Province will not tell us the truth must mean they don’t want to be held accountable.
Ontario review of psychiatric wait times in jail kept secret | Toronto Star.
Judge raps Crown for ignoring video evidence, as man vindicated in assault case | Toronto Star
I previously posted about this case where Mr. Pal-Deng was held in custody for 7 months on a maximum 6 month charge for an assault for which there was video evidence that he didn’t commit but for which the Crown proceeded anyway. Here’s the video exonerating him.
Judge raps Crown for ignoring video evidence, as man vindicated in assault case | Toronto Star.
SHOPLIFTING & DEMAND LETTERS FROM RETAILERS
If you’ve been charged with shoplifting and have received a letter from a lawyer acting on behalf of the store demanding payment of approximately $500 together with a threat of being sued, scroll down in this article to the portion entitled “Demand Letters from Retailers” and read this lawyer’s opinion that “demand letters sent by lawyers on behalf of retailers seeking recovery of losses associated with shoplifting either may not rest on a legitimate cause of action, or may claim losses that courts do not recognize.”
A police officer reveals what not to do at a roadblock
Things to NOT do when stopped by the police … or in the alternative make sure you’ve got one of my business cards.
THE VICTIM (FINE) SURCHARGE – a brief history.
How Having a Baby Can Land a Woman in Jail | Alternet
CRIMINALIZING PREGNANT DRUG USE IS PROBLEMATIC – Particularly when we legally define a foetus as not being a human being until after emerging alive from the womb. Test the baby and if found positive for drugs, seize and remove the baby, charge and imprison the mother. I’m having difficulty in seeing the positive aspects of this policy.
EYEWITNESS EVIDENCE – can be dangerously inaccurate
EYEWITNESS EVIDENCE – can be dangerously inaccurate and easily lead to miscarriages of justice. “Fleeting observations that generate misidentification are a notorious cause of wrongful convictions.” Justice Melvyn Green
INTEGRITY – Global TV anchor Leslie Roberts suspended | Toronto Star
I have always believed that the way to success is to work hard, develop skills, be honest, put my client’s interests above my own and have integrity. I have kept to that philosophy even when it has cost me and my family personally. But then you run across someone with a totally different self-serving at the cost of every one else, under the table philosophy of someone like this guy and it makes me feel like a fool…a complete idiot. I could play that game and I could play it well, but I chose not to, because it’s not right.