[CRIM 330] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (19 pages long!)
6 Feb 2017
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Week 1 lec 1 jan 9. Attorney general = provincial ag (in provinces: federal ag (in territories and conspiracies & substantive offences for non-code federal offences. Two types of criminal offences: (1) indictable, (2) summary conviction. Note, sometimes referred as a 3rd, dual procedure offences (mixed or hybrid) offences are an amalgam of the first two. Implications: police powers trial process: appeals, punishment. Key provisions: s. 468 superior courts have jurisdiction to try any indictable offence, s. 469 serious offence list (former death penalty list, s. 553 absolute jurisdiction of the prov. Ct: s. 536(2) election of mode of trial. Where the value of what is stolen does not exceed five thousand dollars. Crown option offences (electable, dual procedure or hybrid offences) Interpretation act: 34. (1) where an enactment creates an offence, (a) the offence is deemed to be an indictable offence if the enactment provides that the offender may be prose(cid:272)uted for the offe(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)y i(cid:374)di(cid:272)t(cid:373)e(cid:374)t .
