Hate crime in London, Ontario
Assault a hate crime A woman had her head covering torn off and was pelted with anti-Arab slurs in an attempted stabbing London police are treating as a hate crime.
Criminal Law
Sex assault and consent
Rookie officer acquitted in sex assault A man meets a woman on a dating website. They get together for coffee. Later, they move on to her car and start making out and talking about sex….
Shocking confession on witness stand
Ex-boyfriend confesses to child’s murder Peter Small writes for the Toronto Star: In a scene worthy of movie-of-the-week witness box confessions, the former boyfriend of a woman charged with fatally beating her 2-year-old daughter testified…
Bailiffs behaving badly…
…Well, maybe not so much a bailiff, but a courtroom deputy. A report out of Maricopa County, Arizona amazingly shows Detention Officer Adam Stoddard taking a document from defence counsel’s files while she argues during…
Two charges dropped, two to go
Two charges dropped against shopkeeper Jennifer Yang writes: Kidnapping and weapons charges were dropped this morning against a shopkeeper who was arrested for detaining a suspected shoplifter.
Former OPP Commish to Review UWO Arrest…
The University of Western Ontario has hired former Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner and lawyer Gwen Boniface to review the violent arrest of Irnes Zeljkovic according to a London Free Press article and from UWO Communications. The…
Judge found guilty of of corruption; 6500 convictions overturned
This story comes from Philadelphia: All Ciavarella juvie convictions vacated County judicial scandal ruling on about 6,500 cases is a victory for advocacy group Juvenile Law Center of Philadelphia Seeking to remedy what it deemed…
Toronto Police Accuses SIU of Playing Politics
The push and pull of Ontario’s Police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, continues after  Toronto Police Service Association Union President Mike McCormack suggests. It was only last year that the Ontario Ombudsman’s Office headed by…
Surviving street racer convicted
‘Brazen’ driver guilty in crash Bob Mitchell writes for the Toronto Star: On June 3, 2006, the Radmans were critically injured when their Pontiac Sunfire was hit by a Porsche which had gone out of…
Interogation Tricks You Should Never Fall For
As a sequel to Why You Should Never Talk to the Police, we bring you these interrogation tricks from HBO’s The Wire,
Police Were Instigators in Montebello – Report Holds
When the North American Summit Leaders’ Summit was held in Montebello, Quebec in August 2007, something came to the attention of Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. Amidst a seemingly peaceful…
Citizen’s arrest
It’s one of the cases that gets ordinary people all riled up. A chronic criminal, Anthony Bennett, who some say stole from Chinatown stores for years finally got caught. A hard-working store owner, Mr. Chen, aided…