Criminal Defence Law Blog
If you don’t think this is serious, “the physician wrote that Tse was “the healthiest COVID-19 patient he had ever seen, with no underlying health conditions.” Tse played tennis three times a week and worked out at least once a week on an aerobic machine.” RIP Sandy.
https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/veteran-crown-attorney-dies-of-covid-19
The Criminal Lawyers’ Association stepped up and sent many of its members into harms way in the courts “to defend and rescue, most often for no fee, individuals in need of bail hearings and those languishing in custody.”
Inmates are being moved to Toronto South where some have already tested positive. April 20, 2020
We’re just like you, stuck at home and out of work.
Powerful insight which should cause us to re-examine our whole approach to incarceration.
/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/news/gta/2020/04/09/covid-19-is-revealing-a-momentous-divide-among-ontario-judges-on-whether-to-release-more-accused-people-on-bail/empty_court.jpg)
“The virus starts in one person but then can run like wildfire through an entire population. It can then be carried outside of the institution by the staff. That is the nature of a pandemic and of contagion. It can take hold at any time.” However, some Judges are refusing to acknowledge this and require proof of a personal underlying medical condition of age or health before they will consider the effect of COVID-19 on the jail population. J. Harris in Brampton said “Leaving that man in jail would put him in “one of the most dangerous places imaginable” during the pandemic.”
