LAWS 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Regulatory Offence, Actus Reus, Mens Rea
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From the headlines: barry and honey sherman, initially thought to be a murder suicide is not thought to be a contract killing. It was after a private investigation that this announcement was made: one of the concerns that has been raised is that we may have differential justice depending on who people are. In the cjs and in incarceration rates, there are a certain demographic of people that both are full of: aboriginal/indigenous people, people on remand instead of people actually doing sentences, the people in prisons are low socioeconomic status. The government made a decision to save (cid:373)o(cid:374)e(cid:455) o(cid:374) the (cid:449)ater suppl(cid:455), the(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t fi(cid:454) pipes a(cid:374)d lead got i(cid:374)to the (cid:449)ater: there was a number of decisions and issues with this problem, an announced deficit. It was discovered only after several months that the water was contaminated: people are still drinking boiled water, there is regulatory and criminal liability as issue.
