Source: Canada’s Parliament to Consider Bill Suspending Marijuana Crime Records – Weedmaps News
RISK-DRIVEN TRACKING DATABASE – Known as RTD or “The Hub”, police, school staff, social workers, health care workers, and the provincial government are working together to amass highly sensitive information about people’s lives.
The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.
Source: Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk’ Database
RISK-DRIVEN TRACKING DATABASE – Known as RTD or “The Hub”, police, school staff, social workers, health care workers, and the provincial government are working together to amass highly sensitive information about people’s lives.
The database includes detailed, but “de-identified,” information about people’s lives culled from conversations between police, social services, health workers, and more.
Source: Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior In a ‘Risk’ Database
FALSE RAPE ACCUSATIONS – It happens … more than you think.
She has pleaded guilty, saying she made up the story after cutting herself and her clothing.
Source: No Prison For Texas Teen Who Lied About Being Raped By 3 Black Men
POLICE INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES – After viewing many interrogations over the years, this pretty well sets out the steps of the REID method of questioning suspects. This is why we ALWAYS tell clients to say NOTHING.
TO TEXT OR NOT TO TEXT? – I prefer to email with clients, for the reasons explained here.
Take the pros and cons of text messaging seriously when it comes to your law practice.
Source: To Text, Or Not To Text, Clients: An Ethical Question For A Technological Time
JUSTICE or VENGEANCE – What motivates our sentencing decisions?
Two court hearings this week revived debate over a recent change in Canadian law for sentencing mass murderers and serial killers.
Source: Justice or Vengeance? How Canada Deals With Terrible Crimes
MURDER SENTENCES AND CONSECUTIVE PERIODS OF INELIGIBILITY OF PAROLE – A sentence of life imprisonment for first-degree murder is a life sentence. The convict is ineligible to APPLY for parole for 25 years. As in the McArthur case here, the court had to consider whether to make the periods of ineligibility for parole concurrent or consecutive. The judge has to consider, among many other things, the principle of faint hope, cruel and unusual punishment and the practicality of the result as well as the precedential value of the decision. It is, for sure, a controversial issue.
Bissonnette, who has already served two years in prison, will be eligible for parole when he is in his late 60s.
Source: Quebec mosque shooter Bissonnette sentenced to 40 years
SENIORS BINGO BRAWL – Ahhhh, those perky seniors. No charges laid!
OPP say several people at an long-term care facility became involved brawl at a bingo game.
