SPECIAL CLASSES OF OFFENDERS – We can add “black offenders” as another special class of offenders.
INDIGENOUS WOMEN VICTIMS – are going to be a special class of victim. Offences against them will bring a harsher sentence. Justice Burstein’s granting a conditional discharge for impaired driving to an indigenous woman is entirely consistent with this policy. But it seems inconsistent with the Gladue principles applicable to victimized indigenous men who already suffer higher rates of incarceration.
WHICH JORDAN LIMIT APPLIES?
Which of the JORDAN presumptive ceilings of unreasonable delay is applicable is not determined by whether it is a one-step or two-step proceedings but simply by whether the trial proceeds in the Ontario Court or the Superior Court.
http://www.ontariocourts.ca/decisions/2019/2019ONCA0600.pdf
NOT CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE (NCR) – If you don’t understand this defence, you’re apparently not alone. Here’s a pretty good straight forward explanation.
Not everyone understands the concept of ‘not criminally responsible,’ and unfortunately that includes the premier of Ontario
Source: Opinion | Doug Ford should get facts straight on ‘not criminally responsible’