The trial judge found that KD consented to erotic asphyxiation, and that she did not experience bodily harm
because the unconsciousness «was only transient» (2011 SCC 28 at para 11).
Justice Harry La Forme dissented, holding that «Ewanchuk conclusively establishes that... prior consent is not effective as a matter of law
because unconsciousness deprives the person consenting of the ability to express consent or know whether they are consenting at the time the sexual activity occurs» (at para. 117).
Not exact matches
Clearly the compassion of the courts is going to reach far and wide under the new dispensation, even unto those who can not speak for themselves
because they are «in a vegetative state or a permanent and irreversible state of
unconsciousness.»
With this step from
unconsciousness to consciousness, from apathetic hopelessness regarding ones fate to faith in the liberating God of the poor, the quality of poverty also changes
because one's relationship to it changes.21
With this step from
unconsciousness to consciousness, from apathetic hopelessness regarding one's fate to faith in the liberating God of the poor, the quality of poverty also changes
because one's relationship to it changes.21
This can lead to
unconsciousness and even death in mere minutes and often goes unnoticed
because baby is in a position where he can not send out a stress signal.
I doubt that the banking software police will come to your house and beat you into
unconsciousness and arrest you
because you labeled an account «checking» that you were supposed to label «savings».
This is
because the onset of
unconsciousness is not immediate.
You may find there is evidence which tends to show that the defendant was physically unable to control his physical actions
because of automatism or
unconsciousness; that is a state of mind in which a person, though capable of action, is not conscious of what the person is doing at the time the crime was alleged to have been committed.
And not just
because it means that you've finally lulled them into a state of quiet
unconsciousness and can finally take a breather — it's also
because they a...