LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Homicide, Peel Regional Police, Mitigating Factor
Document Summary
November 2, 2016: publication, records and information. Includes pre-sentence reports, youth diversion reports, police records (investigative records, finger prints, photographs), court records. Records (part 6 ycja): publication and derogation (s. 110) Re f. n. (2000, scc) stigmatization or premature labeling of a young offender still in his or her formative years is well understood as a problem in the juvenile justice system. A young person once stigmatized as a lawbreaker may, unless given help and redirection, render the stigma a self-fulfilling prophecy. Derogation: s. 110 sets out circumstances where the general rule against non-publication do not apply: 110(2): the protection under s. 110(1) does not apply if the young person receives an adult sentence. Facts: december 13, 2003, and an 18-year-old, jonathan romero, got into a fight at a mall. knocked romero to the ground and punched him. When paramedics arrived, romero had no vital signs. Romero died in hospital overnight, and was arrested the next day.
