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The parties who can make submissions during a sentencing hearing.
Who are the Crown and Defence?
The criminal justice worker who prepares a pre-sentence report.
Who is a probation officer?
Definition of a victim.
What is "a person against whom an offence has been committed, or is alleged to have been committed, who has suffered, or is alleged to have suffered, physical or emotional harm, property damage or economic loss as the result of the commission or alleged commission of the offence and includes, for the purposes of sections 672.5, 722 and 745.63, a person who has suffered physical or emotional harm, property damage or economic loss as the result of the commission of an offence against any other person."?
A subsection of plea bargaining.
What is a Joint Submission?
The year the original Star Wars came out.
Evidence that the court should consider during a sentencing hearing.
What is all relevant evidence?
A specialized pre-sentence report meant to assist the courts in contextualizing the circumstances of individual Indigenous people who are charged with crimes and being sentenced.
What are Gladue Reports?
A statement given by a victim of the crime during a sentencing hearing.
What is a 'Victim Impact Statement"?
A case that outlines that judges should review a Crown revoking a plea bargain.
The last province to join Canada.
What is New Foundland and Labrador?
A defendant's right to make a statement on their own behalf before the pronouncement of a sentence.
What is the right of allocution?
A case where the trial judge was heavily influenced by a PSR that contained content of unattributable hearsay.
What is R v Dolbec (1963) BCCA?
VIS are treated as this type of factor.
What is an aggravating factor?
A case that outlines guidance to trial judges on the approach they should follow when they are troubled by a joint submission on sentence.
What is R v Anthony-Cook (2016) SCC
what is 1917?
What is Hearsay evidence?
A case where the PSR was ignored due to the contents not matching the Criminal Code requirements.
What is R v McPherson (2013) Ont SC?
The percentage of VIS in BC.
What is 8%?
Cases where the accused appealed after making a joint submission. (name 1).
What are R v Wood (1988) and R v Sriskantharajah (1994)?
The breed of dog that Snoopy is.
What is a beagle?
What is XXIII?
The section of the Criminal Code that discusses regulations for pre-sentencing reports.
What is s. 721?
Something a victim may have with them when presenting a VIS.
What is a photograph of the victim before the commission of the crime?
Case, where the Crown appealed the imposed sentence as it was more lenient than what was in the joint submission.
What is R v DeSousa (2012) ONCA
The first capital of Canada.
What is Kingston?