Sentences with phrase «dangerous offender»

The lawyers were also able to reveal that one of the defendants was a known dangerous offender.

Solomon is also a member of Legal Aid Ontario's Extremely Serious Criminal Matters (ESM) panel, and can accept Legal Aid certificates for the most serious cases, including murder, dangerous offender applications and terrorism charges.

Brodksy, who acted for J.D.S., says the case reflects the ease with which Ontario Crowns often seek and obtain dangerous offender designations given Klassen's comments that the offender was unlikely to reoffend.

His current research is focused on the Mr. Big investigative technique, and Aboriginal over-representation as dangerous offenders subject to indeterminate detention.

«He worked to reverse wrongful convictions and helped develop programs to target the most dangerous offenders in Brooklyn to drive down violent crime, while still diverting low - level offenders — particularly young people — from the criminal justice system.»

A research project on dangerous offender legislation in Canada and other jurisdictions, considering the advantages and disadvantages of the various approaches;

Courses were provided because experience showed they were usually necessary if dangerous offenders were to cease to be dangerous.

Tomasi says Correctional Services Canada also offers yearly training programs for parole officers to update their skills in certain areas, such as supervising Aboriginal offenders, or working with dangerous offenders.

A more economical course is to set up sentencing policies that keep dangerous offenders in prison for their full sentences — by moving non-dangerous offenders into alternative work programs on the outside.

The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill, published this week, will also give powers to courts to ensure dangerous offenders given a discretionary life sentence serve a higher proportion of their tariff before becoming eligible for parole consideration, and create a presumption that trials in magistrates» courts will proceed in the absence of the accused.

The Human Rights Act has led to local people not being informed of dangerous offenders moving into their area, the shadow justice secretary argued during his keynote conference speech earlier today.

The Home Office has come under fire for the way it manages dangerous offenders, after a number of high - profile attacks by those supposedly under supervision.

Sir Menzies also proposed new measures in response to a series of high - profile crimes by dangerous offenders released on probation.

However, having regard to the Board's statutory mandate to protect the public from dangerous offenders and to treat patients found not criminally responsible fairly and appropriately, it did not have authority to grant an absolute discharge to dangerous patients.

Criminal Law: Long - Term v. Dangerous There is a publication ban in this case, in the context of long - term v. dangerous offender orders.

In the autumn Mr Reid announced operation safeguard - which allows the use of police cells - as an emergency measure, and last month he reminded courts they should only be sending the most dangerous offenders to jail.

The public have a right to expect protection from violent and dangerous offenders,» he said at the time.

Home Office minister Gerry Sutcliffe added: «Protecting the public is at the heart of the government's priorities, and ensuring the effective management of the most dangerous offenders is a key part of our agenda.»

The Daily News reported today about repeated failures with the governor's initiative to move juvenile offenders from state run facilities into New York City programs that are obviously unequipped to handle the dangerous offenders.

An Ontario judge has rejected a dangerous offender application in the case of a man who sexually assaulted two children despite a previous record involving a similar offence.

In the end, Cole rejected the dangerous offender application and handed J.D.S. a 10 - year sentence.

In reviewing publicly available statistics one learns that, since the inception of the dangerous offender regime in 1977, on average 18 Canadian offenders per year have been designated as dangerous offenders.

«It seems to me that if a court is being asked to take the rare step of imposing a dangerous offender designation (determinate or indeterminate), one should have a clear and explicit evidentiary and logical basis for so doing,» wrote Cole in his sentencing decision on Friday.

«Ontario is the place you don't want to be if a dangerous offender or long - term offender application is on the table,» he says, adding it was shocking the attorney general allowed the Crown to go ahead with an application in this case in light of Klassen's findings.

According to the defence counsel in the matter, the case is one of the first since 2008 changes to the dangerous offender provisions to deal with the question of when a sexual offender isn't a dangerous offender.

That was despite his previous conviction and treatment for sexual offending as part of a 1993 probation order, a fact the Crown put forward among the arguments for a dangerous offender designation.

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(i) If the dangerous offender provisions are satisfied the judge still retains a discretion as to whether to impose an indeterminate or extended sentence.

Charter of Rights and Freedoms: The Crown brought a dangerous offender application; following the hearing and submissions, counsel for Donald Joseph Boutilier served a notice of constitutional question in relation to several amendments to s. 753 of the Criminal Code.

Then one day, he is convicted of 10 sexual offences, declared a dangerous offender and sentenced to indefinite imprisonment.

Saskatchewan Crown wants child pornographer labelled as a dangerous offender, Canadian Press

Rod has prosecuted several murder, dangerous offender, significant fraud, sexual assault and driving offense cases.

The dangerous offender Claude Larouche.

If you are serving a life sentence or indeterminate sentence for murder, or are found to be a Dangerous Offender by the court, then the law sets Parole Eligibility for Full Parole as follows:

Joseph Neuberger agrees with the judge's decision to not brand the accused as a Dangerous Offender.

The first man convicted of human trafficking in Toronto could face an indeterminate sentence if declared a «dangerous offender» by court.