CRM 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jury Trial, Quasi, R V Drybones
4 Nov 2016
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Key concepts in aboriginal law the role of the criminal law in defining. Aboriginal rights aboriginal people and the criminal justice system. The ways the criminal and quasi-criminal laws have been used by the government as ways of establishing power & authority over aboriginal peoples. The ways that aboriginal peoples have used criminal and quasi-criminal cases as venues for defining aboriginal rights; note the distinction between: Rights specifically about criminal law and criminal procedure (discussed over the next few classes) Rights that aren"t about criminal issues but are defined in criminal contexts (today"s topic) Murder, theft, drugs- are considered true crimes. Federal government only allowed for making those kinds of laws. Look enough like crimes, makes sense to talk about them as the same conversation. Violate a provincial hunting regulation- shooting a moose offseason- not a federal law that is being broken, but a provincial matter.
