Mental Illness as a Mitigating Factor
Bill Thompson writes for the Ontario Bar Association’s Criminal Justice section about how a defendant’s mental illness can be a mitigating factor that reduces her sentence. Read [...]
Bill Thompson writes for the Ontario Bar Association’s Criminal Justice section about how a defendant’s mental illness can be a mitigating factor that reduces her sentence. Read [...]
Photo: Jail Cell by Andrew Bardwell (CC BY-SA 2.0) The Conservatives have a long history of trying to kill Canada’s system of gradually reintegrating people into the community at the end of a [...]
“A Cell” by Aliven Sarkar (CC BY-SA 3.0 ) How ubiquitous is the wrongful conviction? Although you might think scholars and lawyers alike would be keenly interested in knowing, a [...]
We know surprisingly little about jurors’ capacity to understand and follow complex legal instructions. This issue has profound implications for our adversarial trial system, and Frank [...]
Frank writes about the troubling case of Joseph Groia, who was subjected to disciplinary proceedings by the Law Society for defending his client in an “uncivil” manner. Read the full [...]
Photo: Clifton Campville Church Bells by Brian Webster (CC BY-SA 2.0) The Supreme Court’s recent decision in R. v. Quesnelle, 2014 SCC 46 has got the legal community confused. In some [...]
Photo: Justice, 50 Fleet Street, London by mira66 (CC BY 2.0) The use of harsh sentences to coerce pleas is a staple of American criminal justice. Alas, this perverse phenomenon has arrived in [...]
Photo: I-Spy by 56:365 (CC BY-SA 2.0) Your phone company knows where your cellphone is at all times and, if you never leave home without your cellphone, it knows where you are at all times. This [...]