CRM 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Junk Science, Adversarial System, Legal Aid

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2300
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

Agenda: criminal justice process, bail and remand, players in the court, victims, sentences, dangerous offenders. Investigative detention: arrest, reason, right, respond, right to counsel, legal aid, police have the right to detain and search you. If they arrest you they have to state that clearly b. Inform of actual charge i: explains the reason for offence, explain right to retain counsel, right to respond, below a certain income standard, assist people, strained since they don"t have a lot of time, but assistance is there. Compelling appearance (bail and remand: release on own recognizance, promise to appear, pre-trial hearing, bail hearing released or remanded, judicial interim release, bail, pre-trial detention, remand. Presumption of release: emphasize the need to release most offenders, show cause, crown has to show cause, evidence as to why you should be remanded, ladder effect, gradually moving up the scale b.