Sentences with phrase «on dangerous offender»

It contains detailed guidance — including a summary of relevant case law — on the dangerous offender provisions in CJA 2003.

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

Not exact matches

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.

This sanction is imposed by the court on dangerous and sane offenders, when an ordinary time - limited prison sentence in itself is considered insufficient for protecting the community.

Also at noon, IDC Leader Jeff Klein, and IDC members Sens. Diane Savino, Jose Peralta and Marisol Alcantara will release Preying on Pre-Ks, a report examining a dangerous loophole allowing hundreds of sex offenders to live near standalone pre-kindergartens in NYC, 250 Broadway, 20th floor, Manhattan.

He also called for new restrictions on foreign criminals who can not be deported and a new violent offenders register to keep track of dangerous individuals.

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

«Allowing high - level sex offenders to stay in family shelters where vulnerable women and children are trying to get back on their feet is not only troublesome but dangerous,» Klein said in a statement.

Maybe some of the drug laws will change and we can concentrate on incarcerating really dangerous people and habitual offenders.

The new website, as of yesterday, lists 35 dangerous dogs in Minneapolis (compared to 146 people on the map of sex offenders residing in the city).

Instead of relying on the Canadian criminal justice system to punish serious offenders in accordance with the law, to rehabilitate offenders, and working to reintegrate them into society, the federal government will deport potentially dangerous individuals to countries where they could pursue further violence against Canada and others.

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.

«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.

In 1967, some 46 years before Whatcott was decided, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a lower court's finding that Everett George Klippert (a confessed homosexual) was a «dangerous sexual offender» on the basis that he «was likely to commit further sexual offences of the same kind with other consenting adult males.»

If an indication is given, the judge should make it clear that if the defendant is later assessed as «dangerous», the sentences mandated by CJA 2003 — an indeterminate or extended sentence — will be imposed and that, if the accused is assessed as dangerous, the indication can only relate to the notional determinate term which will be used in the calculation of the minimum specified period the offender would have to serve before he may apply to the Parole Board to direct his release or, in a case where an extended sentence is the only lawful option, it will relate to the appropriate custodial term within the extended sentence — that is, the indication does not encompass the length of any extension period during which the offender will be on licence following his release.Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No 16) Order 2007 (SI 2007/1999) Section 29 of CJA 2003 creates (in the case of public prosecutions only) a new method of commencing criminal proceedings — written charge and requisition, to replace laying an information and issuing a summons.

(v) If the offender is later assessed as «dangerous», the indication can only relate to the notional determinate term which will be used in the calculation of the minimum specified period the offender would have to serve before he may apply to the Parole Board to direct his release; or, in a case where an extended sentence is the only lawful option, it will relate to the appropriate custodial term within the extended sentence — that is, the indication does not encompass the length of any extension period during which the offender will be on licence following his release.

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

Where the Crown proves the basic facts set out in s. 753 (1.1), the offender must prove on a balance of probabilities that he is not a dangerous offender within the meaning of s. 753 (1)(a) or (b).

As a result of this third conviction, Section 753 (1.1) placed the onus on Mr. Hill to prove that he was not a «dangerous offender,» who should remain incarcerated for an «indeterminate» period of time.

Consider, for example, a case where the Crown proves the basic facts required for by s. 753 (1.1) beyond a reasonable doubt, and where the accused, in response, presented evidence that did not disprove on a balance of probabilities that the required criteria of a dangerous offender finding under s. 753 (1) were met.

Third, harsh HTA laws often places pressure on police or crown that having so many petty speeding offenders to sort through and makes it hard if not impossible to distinguish the truly dangerous ones from simple speeding.