Sentences with phrase «public mischief»
"Public mischief" refers to intentional actions that cause disturbance or harm to the general public. It involves engaging in activities that have the potential to disrupt public order, safety, or peace. Full definition
Section 140 of the Code creates an offence of public mischief for anyone who, with intent to mislead, causes a police officer to investigate a false statement that accuses some other person of having committed an offence or otherwise mislead justice.
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Mr. Camping should be arrested and charged with public mischief for causing so much grief for so many people all over the world.
Harold Camping needs to be arrested and charged with public mischief.
Laws to prevent public mischief and the effects of changing governments changing their minds and reneging on previously made deals.
The charge of creating public mischief in ways that endangered life carries a very heavy sentence.
Public Mischief generally carries a significant jail sentence, especially when it has impacted the victim.
In March 2017, Michelle Ross was sentenced and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to public mischief in a fake missing persons case last year.
Regina v. T.P. (2009) Charges of Public Mischief, Obstruct Peace Officer, Assault x 5 (Domestic), and Mischief Over $ 5,000.00 withdrawn in the Ontario Court of Justice.
It talks about promoting public purposes such as «equality», «mutual respect» and «dignity» and preventing a public mischief — that is, «discrimination» — without explaining these very big terms.
A recent example of a public mischief charge comes from Saskatchewan where a woman and her husband tried to fake the husband's death.
Examples: obstruction of justice, obstructing a police officer, assault with intent, assault causing bodily harm, and public mischief.
The husband also pleaded guilty to public mischief and obstructing a peace officer and was sentenced to three months in jail.
In Canada, for example, the Criminal Code's «false news and public mischief» section 372 (1) makes it a potentially indictable offence (up to two years in jail) for anyone with provable intent to «injure or alarm» a person with false information via a letter or «telecommunication.»
Regina v. M.M. (2010) Charges of Assault with Weapon x 2 (Domestic), Mischief Over $ 5,000.00, Utter Death Threat, and Public Mischief (allegedly making a false statement), all withdrawn in the Ontario Court of Justice prior to trial.
During her sentencing for public mischief, Justice Karen Lische of the Ontario Court Justice stated,
Theriault is charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon and public mischief.
Even when the acquisition was wrongful, the dispossession, after a generation has elapsed, of the probably bonâ fide possessors, by the revival of a claim which had been long dormant, would generally be a greater injustice, and almost always a greater private and public mischief, than leaving the original wrong without atonement.