LAWS 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Double Jeopardy, Summary Offence, O. J. Simpson Murder Case
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Class 2 (the foundations of criminal justice: helpful to study for exams is the index at the back of the book. If we are taking about 2 major components of crime, you can find what pages actus reus and mens rea are on. In practice, some people wait a really long time for trial. are just waiting. In the last 10-15 years, we have seen a huge gross in the amount of people who are waiting for trial. Looking at the ottawa carleton detention centre, there are about 16% of people who are waiting for their trial. It is much more likely that people will be bumped to another prison after waiting so long for a trial: a lot of consequences for defence lawyers. They have to move around in order to connect with their clients. In recent years, although askov was supposed to fix lengthy waits, the problem has come up again: this case is r vs. jordan.
