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City eyes parking ticket court charge

"Illegal" parking a more serious offence than...

Activist sentenced for urging G20 fence destruction

Al Queda members demand change of venue to Canada for trial and sentencing.

Police arrest suspect in Jane Street shooting death

Gawd forbid the investigating officers didn't, even subconsciously, inclde racial profiling in their decision making.

NDP says back-to-work bill unfair to postal workers

BIG SURPRISE!

Ashley Smith And Her Family Will Not Find Justice...

...nor peace.

CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD

Lawyers blast coroner in Smith inquest
Her attempts to control counsel are ‘completely contrary to the public nature of these proceedings,’ family’s attorney tells Porter


Those who failed to protect Ashley Smith seek to protect themselves

Correctional Service of Canada has brought a motion to restrict access of the media (and the public) to prison videos, the fallback position that at the least, guards’ faces should be blurred

Pic Says It All...

'Vigilante grocer' found not guilty
By SAM PAZZANO, Courts Bureau

Judge finds grocer David Chen not guilty
Peter Kuitenbrouwer: In a cliffhanger ruling that mixed references to film noir and pulp fiction, Mr. Justice Ramez Khawly took two hours this morning to get to his ruling: David Chen is not guilty on all charges

...who will compensate Chen for the costs involved in this debacle?

Another Example Of A Problem With Our Justice System...

...trials become media events and the accussed needs to live with this  irregardless of whether they are found guilty or innocent. I would favour a media ban until the verdict is made.

CHRISTIE BLATCHFORDVictims should not rule our courtrooms
Oct 23, 2010 6:12AM EDT

If all our society wanted was justice for victims, we could mete it out ourselves, as they do in places like Afghanistan

Rex Murphy On "The David Chen" Travesty Of Justice...

...a must read for the justice officials and police in Toronto.

A cheap act in a mean world


Rex Murphy: Thirty and 40 years ago, it was commonplace back home in Newfoundland. Toward the fall of the year, afternoons and weekends, young men and old would head off into the woods armed with nothing but an axe apiece.

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Not One Of Toronto's Finest FINEST HOUR...

David Chen strip-searched
Peter Kuitenbrouwer:

Officers testifying told the court they ordered handcuffed three store employees, then took them to the police station, where they took off all their clothes for a “level three” search

The thief plays the victim in trial of Toronto grocer

Oct 07, 2010 1:11AM EDT

Christie Blachtford


He can’t recall the injury, only the indignation at being tied up by the man he’d stolen from

Kelly McParland: David Chen learns the Canadian word for ‘justice’

...but it appears Toronto's Finest are not alone:

Matt Gurney: Winnipeg Police’s treatment of Alzheimer’s victim an absolute disgrace

Petty Beauracrats Who Won't Take Off Their Helmets OR...

...civil servants who need more job training?

Christie Blatchford

Justice is blind and in Ontario, becoming mute

Rules of disclosure in the province’s criminal justice system are getting ridiculously opaque

If You Are A Criminal And You Expect Ontario Justice...

...don't go to Florida and expect Florida retirees to pat you on the head.

 

 Robber gets life in prison — and a $4 package of socks

 Posted by Barbara Hijek on May 23, 2010 07:35 AM

What started as shoplifting and turned into an armed robbery when the suspect revealed a handgun to a loss-prevention officer has resulted in a mandatory sentence of life in prison for a Daytona Beach man, reports the Orlando Sentinel.


A jury deliberated for about an hour April 14 before finding Dean Rockmore, 48, guilty of robbery with a firearm, assistant State Attorney Chris Kelly said. On Friday, Circuit Judge Margaret Hudson found that Rockmore qualified as a prison releasee re-offender and handed down the life sentence, Kelly said.
Rockmore was released from prison Jan. 26, 2009, and committed the robbery about two months later on March 29, according to court documents.
An employee at the DeLand Walmart saw Rockmore place packages of tee shirts and socks into the front of his pants and stopped him, reports show. Rockmore ran when customers came between him and the worker, and he was chased into the parking lot.
Rockmore dropped the shirts, but he got away with a $4 package of socks after the Walmart employee backed off when Rockmore lifted his shirt to show a gun, police said.
Photo: Florida Department of Corrections

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Bottom Line...

...did the robbery/attack actually occur? yes

...have criminals gauged the attitude of  the public that they feel safe committing a criminal act in front of a crowd? yes

Hepburn: A crime so nasty it stuns blasé Torontonians

By Bob Hepburn 

The subway mugging

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