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Killing of Tim McLean. On 30 July 2008, Tim McLean, a 22-year-old Canadian man, was stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized while riding a Greyhound Canada bus along the Trans-Canada Highway, about 30 km (19 mi) west of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. On 5 March 2009, his killer, 40-year-old Vince Li, was found not criminally responsible for murder ...
There are major differences between English law and Scots law with respect to dealing with breach of the peace; unlike England and Wales where criminal penalties apply to the behaviour leading to or liable to cause a breach of the peace, it is a specific criminal offence in Scotland which is prosecuted daily in the sheriff courts and due to its common law definition it can be applied to a ...
In Canada, a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) or remediation agreement refers to an agreement under Part XXII.1 of the Criminal Code.The agreement is made between the Crown prosecutor and an organization alleged to have committed certain types of criminal offences, usually in the context of fraud or corruption, with the consent of the relevant Attorney General and under the supervision of ...
Cohen v. California. Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment prevented the conviction of Paul Robert Cohen for the crime of disturbing the peace by wearing a jacket displaying "Fuck the Draft " in the public corridors of a California courthouse.
Disappearance of Marshal Iwaasa. Marshal Iwaasa (born January 3, 1993) is a Canadian man from Lethbridge, Alberta who disappeared on November 17, 2019 after accessing his storage locker in Lethbridge. His truck was found burned six days later on a rural logging road near Pemberton, British Columbia. He was 26 years old at the time of his ...
Canada Criminal Code (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-46) [2] See 129(b) for circumstances where it is a crime not to act in the assistance of the police. 129 Everyone who (a) resists or wilfully obstructs a public officer or peace officer in the execution of his duty or any person lawfully acting in aid of such an officer,
Alaa Abdel-Fattah, the imprisoned Egyptian activist, was given the Disturbing the Peace Award to a Courageous Writer at Risk. His aunt, acclaimed author and translator Adhaf Soueif, accepted on ...
Canada. Christopher Paul Neil (born February 6, 1975 [ 3] ), better known as Mr. Swirl Face[ 4][ 1] or Vico (nicknamed after the Interpol operation concerning him), [ 5] is a Canadian convicted child molester. [ 6] He was the subject of a highly publicized Interpol investigation of the child sexual abuse of at least 12 young boys in Vietnam ...