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“The current system is broken — and is placing unnecessary and at times insurmountable barriers to recovery and reintegration in front of people struggling to rebuild their lives,” Deshman urged the federal government to remove the “unnecessary and complicated application process.” The coalition suggests implementing a “spent regime” that automatically seals a criminal record if the offender has successfully completed the sentence and lived within the community for a number of years without incurring further criminal convictions.

Malice murder is essentially first-degree murder. Felony murder is when a person dies during the commission of a felony. A felony can be jointly committed. Each defendant was convicted of committing 4 felonies (aggravated assault x2, false imprisonment, attempt to commit a felony) and upon those, 4 counts of felony murder.

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/ahmaud-arbery/malice-murder-felony-murder-difference-ahmaud-arbery-death-trial/85-d13db692-cff9-4b4d-be73-5eba5ae22054

We found a significant effect on police accountability following the implementation of body cameras. Police officers were 64% more likely to be subject to disciplinary action after a complaint investigation. Consistent with the existing studies, we identified a considerable degree of racial disparity in the resolution of citizen complaints prior to the implementation of police body cameras. But following their widespread implementation in Chicago, body cameras largely eliminated such racial disparities.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-a-trial-in-wisconsin-and-a-reminder-about-whats-right-with-canadian/

1. As a review from two University of Toronto researchers found last year, Black, Latino, and First Nation people are still arrested for cannabis at rates much higher than whites. And this is after legalization. 2. Blair was not concerned too much about the people he used to put in jail for weed, who do not enjoy what fruits legalization offer. 3. What Blair did do was add more crime. Handing a joint to someone under 18 can lead to a years-long prison term — a punishment much stricter than handing them a beer. 4. Though possibly as many as 250,000 people have cannabis offences on their records for which they’re eligible to be pardoned, getting a pardon is so expensive and time-consuming that only about 400 people have secured one, as CTV reported.