In 1983, Phillip Tallio was accused of sexually assaulting and suffocating his 22-month old cousin. Despite a psychologist who spoke with Tallio at the time and found that he had the mental capacity of a 12-year-old, Tallio pled guilty to second-degree murder and has been incarcerated for 37 years.

Major cities across the country have recently suffered dramatic increases in homicides. The increases are remarkable, suddenly-appearing, and widespread in cities across the country—although often concentrated in disadvantaged neighborhoods

In 1991, a California federal judge sent a clear messge in the war on drugs when he sentenced four men convicted of laundering cartel csh to over 500 years in jail each.

The Supreme Court of Canada recently decided that police may conduct investigations into dial-a-dope drug trafficking operations where they have reasonable suspicion that a phone number is being used for drug trafficking

Hearsay is an out of court statement offered for the truth of its contents. The general rule is that hearsay is inadmissible. Hearsay includes verbal and non-verbal statements as well as implied statements.

Keith Raniere, the founder and leader of Nxivm, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn of all seven counts of a superseding indictment charging him with racketeering and racketeering conspiracy

On November 2, 2017, Angus Waterman was found guilty by a jury and convicted of indecent assault and gross indecency against a male from incidents that occurred between 1974 and 1981 (the Criminal Code offences were on the books at that time).

The drama went down in a girl’s washroom in a British Columbia washroom just before Christmas of 2018. Two girls had had been embroiled in an ongoing feud and finally came to blows with an unlikely weapon entering the mix – a boiling hot bowl of ramen noodles.

As trials become more complex, expert opinion evidence has increasingly become an issue. More and more, trial judges are having to warn themselves against falling into the trap of turning trials into a battle of the experts.

In a recent decision, R v Friesen the Supreme Court of Canada has instructed lower courts to be tougher when punishing sexual crimes against children, in landmark reasons for judgment that offer extensive and detailed guidance on principles of sentencing for sexual offences against children.