GENETIC GENEALOGY – also known as a familial search. Police now search the private databases you have submitted your DNA spit-kit too. The catch is that you don’t have to submit your own DNA. You could be a match if any relative of yours has submitted theirs. This is the new front line of privacy protection.

The trial of William Earl Talbott II hinged on a lead from a genealogy site. The verdict will shape the future of crime-fighting and genetic privacy.

Source: Man Found Guilty in a Murder Mystery Cracked By Cousins’ DNA

CONSENT OBTAINED BY FRAUD IS NO CONSENT – This rather obvious statement applies to sexual interactions too.

Having unprotected sex when consent for sexual activity is negated by fraud amounts to sexual assault, according to a recent ruling by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. In R. v. Rivera 2019 ONSC 3918, Justice Nathalie Champagne concluded that Anibal Rivera led the complainant, identified as C.M., to believe that he would wear a condom “as he had previously agreed … and at the last minute … penetrated her without a condom telling her it would be OK,” she wrote in her three-page ruling

Source: Ontario court holds that consensual sex vitiated by fraud is sexual assault – The Lawyer’s Daily

Trudeau government’s impaired driving law is so unclear, even the Justice Department can’t explain it – “At some point the government will have to decide if they actually plan to govern based on science, reason, and data, or if they instead wish to continue wasting precious political capital on PR-short stops which in the long term erode our civil liberties.”

Earlier today the official Twitter account for the Department of Justice had to issue a clarification after Maxime Bernier, the

Source: Trudeau government’s impaired driving law is so unclear, even the Justice Department can’t explain it

“Act of dragging complainant while asleep and drugged was inconsistent with any sort of consent.” – You wouldn’t have thought this would have to go to the Supreme Court of Canada to be decided.

Criminal Law Appeals Appeal from conviction or acquittal Act of dragging complainant while asleep and drugged was inconsistent with any sort of consent

Source: Act of dragging complainant while asleep and drugged was inconsistent with any sort of consent | Law Times

GIVE THEM POWER AND THEY WILL ABUSE IT + SPEEDING UP THE COURT SYSTEM – If the government really wanted to speed up the trial process they might start with not passing blatantly unconstitutional criminal laws that clog up the court process with hundreds and thousands of challenge applications which take years to resolve.

A federal law requiring mandatory roadside breathalyzer tests unfairly targets those with health conditions that prevent them from giving a breath sample, according to a criminal defence lawyer.

Source: No protections for asthmatics who can’t provide breathalyzer samples: Lawyer

ABOLISHING PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES – If the government really wanted to speed up the trial process they might start with not passing blatantly unconstitutional criminal laws that clog up the court process with hundreds and thousands of challenge applications which take years to resolve.

A lawyer for Jamie Bacon said she plans to file a Charter challenge of new legislation that prevents both Crown and defence lawyers from rejecting potential jurors without providing a reason. Kimberley Eldred told B.C. Supreme Court Justice

Source: Murder counselling defence to file Charter challenge of new jury rules | The Western Star