Delivering Criminal Justice

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CHAPTER 11

• Delivering Criminal Justice

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Plea Bargaining

• gt80 of cases are handled this way
• How it works?
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Crowns become de facto judges
• Do you agree with plea bargaining?

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Purposes of Sentencing

• 4 aims
• Denunciation
• Deterrence
• Separation (segregation)
• Rehabilitation
• Judges typically use their discretion since the
  Criminal Code typically provides maximum
  sentences only
• Some offences carry statutorily prescribed
  minimum sentences (eg. Firearms offences,
  homicide)
• Factors judges consider?
• Aggravating/mitigating circumstances
• S. 718 of CC lists 6 sentencing objectives (p.
  328)

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Case R. v. Latimer

• http//www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20101129/robe
  rt-latimer-granted-full-parole-101129/
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vZruMTCnq39kfeature
  related
• http//www.leaderpost.com/homes/VideoRobertLatim
  erparoled/3912320/story.html
• Go to polleverywhere.com and text your votes on
  the Latimer case!

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Sentencing Options

• Absolute/conditional discharge
• Probation
• Fine
• Intermittent sentence
• Conditional sentence (eg. House arrest)
• Imprisonment (incarceration)
• Dangerous offender
• Long-term offender

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Wrongful Convictions

• Donald Marshall
• David Milgaard
• Guy Paul Morin
• Rubin Hurricane Carter
• Steven Truscott
• Romeo Phillion
• AIDWYC and the Innocence Project