Homicide
This type of homicide involves planned and deliberate killing.
First Degree Murder
This level of assault involves causing non-trivial injuries; often bruising, cuts, or minor fractures. Often a weapon is involved.
Level 2: Assault Causing Bodily Injury
This offence occurs when a person enters a place with the intent to commit an indictable offence.
Police need this document, signed by a judge or justice, to search a home unless an urgent exception applies.
A Search Warrant
This defence allows someone to use reasonable force to protect themselves.
Self-Defence
This offence is intentionally killing someone without planning it ahead of time.
Second Degree Murder
This is the simplest form of assault involving applying force or threatening force.
Level One: Assault
If one person takes another person's property without any claim over it. What offence is this?
Theft
A police officer may conduct a search for one of three reasons, the first is that they suspect the person to have committed a crime, what is one other reason?
If the person is under arrest OR if they have an search warrant.
This defence argues that the accused was not at the scene of the crime.
An Alibi
This offence involves killing a newborn under a year old by a mother whose mind is disturbed. It is not considered murder.
Infanticide
A person that threatens to assault someone, could be charged with this offence.
This offence involves obtaining property, money, or services through deceit or lies.
Fraud
If a police officer stops you briefly to ask questions because they suspect you are connected to a crime, this is considered to be a form of...
Detention
This defence is a psychological condition caused by prolonged abuse and recognized in R. v. Lavallee.
Battered Woman Syndrome
This offence involves causing the death of another person by unlawful act or criminal negligence, without intent to kill.
Manslaughter
This level of assault requires wounding, maiming, disfiguring, or endangering life.
Level 3: Aggravated Assault
If a person intentionally destroys or damages property, it could fall under this are of the criminal code. (I'm looking for a word, not a number)
Mischief
What is the difference between an Appearance Notice and a Summons.
Both require you to attend court. An appearance notice is issued by a police officer and a summons is issued by a judge.
A defence where the accused acted unconsciously or involuntarily.
Automatism
Scenario: Two girls (Claire and Alyssa) are dressed in all black with masks covering their faces. They are planning to jump a man on the street just to "scare him". They have a prop knife that cannot harm anyone and they plan to scare him with this knife. At the last minute, Claire switches the prop knife for a real knife without Alyssa knowing, with the intention of killing the man. When they jump the man, Alyssa stabs him with what she thinks is a fake knife and the man dies. What would Claire and Alyssa be charged with respectively? (If you get one charge correct, you get all the points)
Claire would likely be charged with first degree murder. Because she planned and intended the murder. Even though she didn't do the stabbing, her preplanned actions (swithcing the knife) intentionally caused the murder.
One person beat up another person using their fists and the victim had a broken nose, but no other serious injuries. What level of assault is this?
Level 2: Assault Causing Bodily Harm
This offence involves using threats, accusations, menaces, or violence to make another person do something, usually to get money, property or some benefit
extortion
In Ontario, this agency investigates police when serious injury or death occurs.
The Special Investigations Unit (SUI)
This defence dismisses charges if police pressured the accused to commit an offence they would not otherwise commit.
Entrapment