A Block Law 12 - Today I have the library/learning commons booked for you to continue your work on the major civil law project that is due two weeks from today. Including today you have Five (5) library blocks left to finish this assignment...no pressure really. And don't forget if you're choosing to do three cases with a video for your law firm...you had better start script writing and planning your production dates ASAP
B Block Introduction to Law 10 - Today we'll look at the parties to an offense...from the Halton District School Board in Ontario:
The Perpetrator: is the person who actually commits the criminal offence. When more than one person is directly involved in committing a crime, they are called co-perpetrators. In every case, the person actually has to be present at the scene of the offence to be identified as either a perpetrator of co-perpetrator. A person who commits an offence, aids a person to commit an offence, or abets a person in committing an offence is defined as a party to an offence under section 21 of the Criminal Code.
Aiding and Abetting: Aiding means helping a perpetrator commit a crime. To aid the perpetrator, one does not have to be present when the offence is committed. Abet means to encourage without actually providing physical assistance. Two things must be proved before an accused can be convicted of being a party by aiding or abetting. The first is that the accused had knowledge that the other intended to commit an offence. The second is that the accused aided or abetted the other. Mere presence at the scene is not conclusive evidence of aiding or abetting. Under section 21(2), a person who plans an offence is just as guilty as a person who actually commits the offence. However, a person is not guilty if his/her action is not intended to assist in the commission of an offence.
Counselling: The separate offence of counselling, (s. 22), is similar to abetting but is much broader in scope. Counselling includes the acts of advising, recommending, persuading or recruiting another person to commit an offence ("procuring, soliciting or inciting"). A person who counsels does not have to be present at the scene of the crime.
Accessories After the Fact: The Criminal Code provides a penalty for a person who is an accessory after the fact as outlined in section 23. Knowingly assisting a person who has committed a crime to escape capture includes providing food, clothing, or shelter to the offender. One exception to his law is the favoured relationship between a legally married couple. A man or woman cannot be held responsible for assisting in the escape of a spouse and someone escaping with a spouse. An accessory after the fact is one who receives, comforts or assists any one who has been a party to an offence in order to enable him/her to escape, knowing him/her to be a party thereto. There are three constituent elements of the offence of being an accessory after the fact: knowledge that a crime has been committed; an intent to assist the criminal to escape; and an act or omission intended to aid a criminal.
The effect of being a party is that you are guilty of committing an offence – you can be a robber in any of the ways set out. It is not a separate offence. You criminal record will reflect that you were guilty of robbery, not abetting robbery.
Next, we move into criminal law procedures and will focus on arrests, arrest procedures, and your rights upon arrest. You will work on the R. v. Macooh (1993) case, questions 1, 3, 4, and 5 on page 90 and questions 1, 2, 3, 4, & 5 on page 97 of your All About Law text.
C Block Criminology 12 - Back to the blog today. On your blog please consider The Media (and Social Media) vs. Casey Anthony...Was Justice done? The Vancouver Observer had a great article written by Jenny Uechi titled "Judged in the Court of Facebook". The article predominantly deals with the social media attention given to Vancouver's Stanley Cup rioters. Peter Chow-White (a SFU Communications professor) was quoted in the article:
"Over the last 10 years, I've been thinking Orwell got it wrong," said Peter Chow-White, an SFU communications professor specializing in social media. "There's not going to be this oppressive Big Brother eye watching us. We give out the minutiae of our lives for free on Twitter and Facebook."While photographs and video footage posted by the public (and often by the perpretators themselves) have been instrumental in bringing them to justice, Chow-White said that tools like Facebook risk putting ordinary people on the same playing field as powerful politicians and celebrities whose lives are built around public exposure.
"We're used to politicians, celebrities, professional athletes living in public --that's just part of the extraordinary wages they garner," he said. "But everyday people are not used to living in public. That's not part of the deal."So during the Casey Anthony trial some of the most reliable news came not from Nancy Grace on HLN but from the Twitter account NinthCircutFL (a feed managed by the 9th Circut Judicial Court) or from OSCaseyAnthony (the feed of the Orlando Sentinel newspaper). Most national media outlets regularly used these feeds for information on the trial. Facebook and Twitter are revolutionary in their ability to provide instant forums for social discussion (and for revolutions to organize like the Arab Spring)...However they can also be arenas for vitriol and hate hidden behind the guise of free speech. Twitter and Facebook can be used for community building and citizen journalism - or as in the case of Casey Anthony (or Jodi Arias or George Zimmerman) citizen surveillance and vigilantism. Timothy Kelley wrote
"There was a time not long ago that if you repeatedly and routinely used 140 characters to express your most profound ideas you would be referred to as illiterate. Now that provincial form of communication can make you a social Mayor".So was justice served? Think back to the coverage of the Casey Anthony trial I showed you pre-break and h ere's my question...Is Social Media (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Vine, Instagram, Snapchat) good or bad for criminal trials and the news/media coverage of them? Consider the following when you answer the question on your blog
• Think about who reports information and how that information is used.
• Think about your privacy and how you manage your on-line presence.
• Think about how social media can be introduced as evidence at trials (see the article here).
• Think about how social media can be used during trials (see the article here).
• Do viewer/user comments about media coverage of a trial provide valuable feedback for discussion or not? Why?
D Block Human Geography 11 - Today we'll look at the Key Issue, "Why Do Services Cluster Downtown"? Downtown is the best-known and the most visually distinctive area of most cities. It is usually one of the oldest districts in a city, often the site of the original settlement. The central business district (CBD) is the core of the city where many services cluster. Public, Business and Commercial services are attracted to the CBD because of its accessibility and density. We'll examine North American and non North American downtown cores.
Questions for the day include:
Using your knowledge of services from chapter 12 (last week's work), define each term and give an example of a typical downtown shop with that characteristic.
1. High Threshold
2. High Range
3. Why are these shops decreasing in the CBD?
4. Regarding residential uses – identify a factor pushing them out of the CBD and another that is pulling them elsewhere.
5. Describe how the intense land use of CBDs has created expansion of the CBD “above” and “below” in order to maximize the small space of the downtown?
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