Telltale teardrop quashes acquittal Ontario Superior Court Justice Todd Archibald should not have barred testimony from a gang expert and three Malvern Crew members that could have bolstered the Crown’s case that Abbey had a…
Man admits committing 1992 murder AÂ former Canada Post supervisor admitted today to the 1992 killing of his girlfriend, two years after the Supreme Court of Canada threw out his conviction in a landmark decision because…
Judge more chivalrous than sexist … he was making excuses for her. Probably in a way he wouldn’t have done for a man, but probably as a way of softening his discounting of her testimony….
Letterman apologizes to Palin, Raitt to cancer-affected people, Baird to Toronto. It seems sorry doesn’t seem to be the hardest word lately. Just search Google News for “sorry“, “apologizes“, or “regrets.” But what are the…
A NJ Appellate Division court says that Wikipedia is too malleable to be used as evidence in Palisades Collection v. Graubard, A-1338-07. Mary Pat Gallagher of the New Jersey Law Journal reported yesterday, “[I]t is…
As the prevalence of internet-capable smartphones increases, so too does the rate of mistrials. According to The New York Times, The use of BlackBerrys and iPhones by jurors gathering and sending out information about cases…
What do you call it when you destroy 92 interview tapes? (And what do you say when you previously claimed there were only 2?)
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has ruled that Canadians have no expectation of privacy in their online identity. In a St. Thomas-area child porn case, the police asked Bell Canada for a customer’s name…
An abridged version of this piece was published today in the Toronto Star. Reproduced here for interest with permission of the author, all rights reserved. Veils and justice February 04, 2009 Faisal Kutty Here they…
The B.C. Supreme Court entered a YouTube video of a Victoria man yesterday, the first time the Crown has done so in that province. “AR-15 Makes Swiss Cheese Out of a Couch,” now removed from…
A recent American case, Badasa v. U.S. discussed the use of Wikipedia by a Homeland Security official. John Timmer at ArsTechnica provides background, References to information at Wikipedia have shown up in various inappropriate places,…
