SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Crown Attorney, Deductive Reasoning, Pie Chart
20 Feb 2016
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Police provide info to crown attorney fror court who decides if goes thru system. Court is boring in real life, unlike in the media. Only 10% of cases go to trial. Screening of criminal cases, see if warrants pursuit based on evidence. Lower courts: based on possible punishment for particular crime. Most cases go here, summary offences, provincial statutes (ex traffic laws), municipal/provincial bylaws. Higher courts: peals from lower court,less cases, more complicated. Summary offences= minor offences, provincial court, mundane/routine cases, 3-5 minutes spent on them. judge alone, no juries, sentences less severe, fine up to 5000, up to 6 months in provinical prison. Theft (but not cattle), fraud under 5000, mischeif, driving under suspended liscence. Heard by trial in front of jury. Preliminary hearing/inqiury, judge determines if enough evidence for trial. Prima facce case= enough evidence for trial. All other indictable offences that don"t fall into these. Can choose trial by prov judge, sup court judge, judge + jury.
