The Final Word on Entrapment? - Daniele Zerbo
The Supreme Court of Canada (“the Court”) recently had the opportunity to revisit the entrapment doctrine established in R v Mack (“Mack") ver three decades ago. This paper will discuss the background of the entrapment doctrine and how the Court applied it in the context of “dial-a-dope” drug trafficking operations. R v Ahmad (“Ahmad") represents a division on the subject because there was only a narrow majority.
Sentencing Sexual Offences: Punishment, Parity, and Trust
In R v Friesen (“Friesen”), a four-year-old girl became the victim of sexual abuse. In late June of 2016, the girl’s mother met Justyn Kyle Napoleon Friesen on a dating website. The two arranged to meet the following month in July of 2016. While Friesen was at a bar that night, the mother decided she would pick him up from the bar and bring him to her home. The four-year-old girl and her one-year-old brother were left at home with the babysitter, a friend of the mother’s.
Clarifying Laws of Sexually Transmitted and Blood Borne Infections
Author: Cole McClelland Criminal law has a storied history with the bedrooms of Canadians. Sexual assault is an incredibly complex topic both in a formalistic legal sense and in the practical application of precedents. Moreover, the applications and interpretations of Criminal Code provisions around sexual assault are ever-evolving. Sexually transmitted and blood borne infections (“STBBI”) have an interesting place within this discourse and open the door to some legal questio
Artificial Intelligence in Policing
Recently, there has been a gradual adaptation in policing towards artificial intelligence (“AI”) and data analysis in order to fight crime. In essence, this practice is accomplished by utilizing AI to sift through large databases of information that have been accumulated in order to recognize patterns. The end goal of this is that the patterns recognized will allow police to “predict” where crime is likely to occur.
The Reasonable Person
The purpose of this paper is to critically analyze the reasonable person standard that is used as an objective test in many criminal law contexts, such as assessing the mens rea in offences that impose objective liability like dangerous driving or determining whether the accused may successfully rely on self-defence to obtain an acquittal.
