This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesday a Florida man was caught trying to exchange McDonald’s for sex, a woman at a Vegas airport thinks her good looks were the cause of her arrest and another woman pretended to be kidnapped to get money from her mother.
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Getting a red light or speeding camera ticket is frustrating for many people. Getting a letter in the mail saying that you or your vehicle did something that you don’t agree with can be upsetting.
Many people will be frustrated after receiving these letters in the mail, being accused of something and as a result, responsible for the financial costs of something, that they may have not even done.
…Is there any way to fight a red light or speeding camera ticket?Read More »
Is there any way to fight a red light or speeding camera ticket? Read More »
Criminal lawyers Kyla Lee of Vancouver and William Jaksa of Toronto say that while a man’s verbal assault on Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland in Alberta last week doesn’t meet the legal definition of uttering threats, he could be open to charges of harassment and causing a disturbance.
“From a legal perspective, I don’t see the behaviour as being threatening within the criminal definition… From a personal perspective and as a woman who’s also public-facing, I could easily see how somebody would feel threatened in that situation and what the law should do, is it should protect people who feel threatened in situations like that and not protect people from these incidents that are on the rise…”
Watch the story here.
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This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesday a thief in Spain tried to drive a stolen car up a staircase to escape the police, two fans got kicked out of a Blue Jays game for getting to third base, and finally, a fast food customer got violent after a restaurant got his order wrong.
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…Weird and Wacky Wednesday: Volume 212 Read More »
A B.C. provincial court judge has issued a scathing rebuke to the environmental group behind Save Old Growth protests in her recent sentencing decision for one of the protesters participating in the highway blockade demonstrations.
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“Comments like this by the courts are likely to be referred to by prosecutors in sentencing hearings going forward if people are convicted or plead guilty” – Kyla Lee
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When people receive speeding tickets, because of the significant consequences attach to them, including fines, penalty points and insurance rate increases, they are often motivated to dispute them.
Unfortunately, many people dispute their speeding tickets themselves. They take on the case without hiring a lawyer, and since they don’t know what to do in a traffic ticket trial, it results in them losing the case.
…I lost my speeding ticket trial, can I appeal? Read More »
A high-ranking B.C. RCMP officer says the legal “landscape has changed” in recent years, affecting officers’ abilities to deal with repeat and chronic offenders.
Supt. Syd Lecky made the comments in an interview with CFCJ as he ends four years as the officer in charge of the Kamloops RCMP to take a position as chief superintendent in the Northwest Territories.
“There’s limitations to the authorities that police have now,” he said.
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In the Jordan case, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that accused persons must be tried within 18 months in provincial courts and within 30 months in superior courts, while the Zora case set the precedent that the right to bail can only be infringed where holding someone in custody is the last possible resort ahead of a trial, Vancouver criminal lawyer Kyla Lee explained.
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“The charter guarantees that you are to be released on bail unless it’s absolutely necessary to keep you in custody pending the outcome of your case,” she said.
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This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesday a man uses a cheeseburger as a weapon, a couple is caught doing the dirty on a Ferris wheel and a bank robber debuts a new disguise.
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RCMP in the Northwest Territories have begun using roadside cannabis-screening technology that has faced criticism from defence lawyers elsewhere in Canada.
Mounties in the territory announced late last month that they had deployed devices designed to take a saliva sample and test for the presence of tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC, the main psychoactive substance in cannabis. They said the technology would help them detect impaired drivers and make roads safer.
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“It can lead to people being arrested who are actually innocent,” said Kyla Lee, a lawyer based in Vancouver.
Lee said research has shown the devices may be more likely to deliver false results in extreme cold temperatures, and movement during analysis could also affect outcomes. She added that while the devices can deliver either a positive or negative test result, they do not indicate how much THC may be in a person’s bloodstream.
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“If you get caught with a noisy vehicle here in BC how much is the fine here?”
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“It’s $109 every time but it’s also 3 points every time and as soon as you get above 4 points you start paying Driver Penalty Point Premiums and you run the risk of losing your drivers license so the real penalty in BC comes from the imposition of those points.”
…Kyla on The Mike Smyth Show: Loud Vehicles Read More »
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