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Having been exposed to the defense side of criminal law, I can tell you, the guys mini mentioned will get a soft slap on the wrist and 'rehabilitation' ...if they're caught. The Keystone Cops are based on SAPOL I think.
I've seen that stats for incarceration rates per capita are similar between Canada and Australia...
I wonder if our country is either noticeably-safer, or Aussies are mostly just more aware of what's happening in their own country.
Makes me wonder,
especially since there was a famous case less than 10 years ago of a Jamaican man who killed someone and was deported back to Jamaica instead of being sentenced. He snuck back (fake I.D.?) into Canada and killed a second person and was yet again, deported... Then he returned and killed a third person, but this time they were considering prosecution instead. (News stories like that are exceedingly-rare here, however. )
Gee, took 'em long enough, eh? A bloody psychopath leaving a trail of victims and countless more grieving, and they "consider" prosecution?? What were they thinking all along? Oh, poor dear, fleeing <insert trendy bleeding-heart grievance here>, blah blah blah.
Human life doesn't have much value anymore in the "justice" system. It's a sick game, it seems, where lawyers try to twist and distort the law into a pretzel, confound the jury and get the latest feral off. Then when vigilantism ensues, they'll get all huffy about it
Gee, took 'em long enough, eh? A bloody psychopath leaving a trail of victims and countless more grieving, and they "consider" prosecution?? What were they thinking all along? Oh, poor dear, fleeing <insert trendy bleeding-heart grievance here>, blah blah blah.
Human life doesn't have much value anymore in the "justice" system. It's a sick game, it seems, where lawyers try to twist and distort the law into a pretzel, confound the jury and get the latest feral off. Then when vigilantism ensues, they'll get all huffy about it
I guess the difference here when we hear about foul play, we usually hear about sentencing being involved. Like Paul Bernardo, or whoever that guy was from the Niagara Region. Our judicial system seems to come across as fairly-stern regarding the frequency of prosecution, though our prison terms do seem surprisingly short compared with the U.S.A. (5-7 years for second-degree murder? Shorter sentences for less-violent crime?)
*Then again, that could be what happens mostly in the GTA, as our most violent-crime-per capita happens in our northern Territories, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
Last edited by ColdCanadian; 10-13-2009 at 07:23 AM..
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(News stories like that are exceedingly-rare here, however. 
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