At the other end of the scale are those serious indictable offences set out in s. 427 of the Code which must be tried by a jury presided over by a judge of the Supreme Court of the Province, trial division. [...] Section 484 (2) of the Code sets out the following words which are put to the accused before he elects: "You have the option to elect to be tried by a magistrate without a jury; or you may elect to be tried by a judge without a jury; or you may elect to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury. [...] C. 108 the Ontario Court of Appeal quashed a conviction because the accused had been given the election in these words: "Upon this charge you have the option to elect to be tried forthwith by the Magistrate, or you may elect to be tried by a judge without a jury, or you may elect to be tried by a court composed of a judge and jury. [...] Whether the appeal was to a County Court judge or by stated case, a further appeal to the Court of Appeal is possible with the leave of the Court of Appeal (s. [...] For a discussion of the discretion exercised by the Crown attorney, see Grosman, THE PROSECUTOR: AN INQUIRY INTO THE EXERCISE OF DISCRETION (1969) and of the discretion exercised by the sentencing Judge, see Hogarth, SENTENCING AS A HUMAN PROCESS (1971).
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Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 8
- Preface to the Fifth Edition 6
- Preface to the Fourth Edition 6
- Preface to the Third Edition 6
- Preface to the Second Edition 7
- Table of Cases 12
- 1 Introduction to Procedure 18
- I: Scheme of the Criminal Code 18
- II: Classification of Offences 18
- III: Hierarchy of Courts 21
- IV: Appeals 21
- V: Provincial Offences 22
- 2 Pre-Trial and Related Procedures 32
- I: Discretion 33
- A: Invoking the criminal process 35
- B: Plea bargaining 38
- II: Compelling the Accused's Appearance 49
- A: Appearance notice and summons 49
- B: Arrest with a warrant 51
- C: Arrest without a warrant 51
- D: Release by police 62
- E: Judicial interim release 62
- III: Search 69
- A: Search with a warrant 69
- B: Search without a warrant 74
- C: Stop and frisk laws 78
- D: Writs of assistance 81
- E: Effect of illegality 90
- F: Wiretapping and electronic surveillance 97
- IV: Confessions 101
- V: Some Bill of Rights Cases 123
- VI: Legal Aid 139
- VII: Regional Detention Centres 161
- 3 Certainty: Codification of Offences; Common-Law Crime and Conspiracy 168
- 4 Morality and the Criminal Law 219
- 5 The Criminal Act: External Circumstances of the Offence 269
- I: Omissions 280
- II: Causation 292
- III: Constructive Murder 304
- 6 Attempt and Related Problems 321
- I: Mens Rea for an Attempt 321
- II: Actus Reus for an Attempt 328
- III: Impossibility 346
- IV: Entrapment 360
- V: Other Forms of Involvement: Incitement, Conspiracy, Aiding and Abetting, Etc. 370
- A: Incitement 371
- B: Aiding and abetting 373
- C: Common intention 386
- 7 Quantum and Burden of Proof 395
- I: Burden of Proof 395
- II: Reasonable Doubt 402
- III: Presumption of Innocence 407
- IV: Circumstantial Evidence 407
- V: Jury Unanimity 413
- 8 The Mental State: Requirements of Culpability 419
- I: Model Penal Code and Other Legislative Solutions 420
- II: Intent 425
- III: Recklessness 439
- IV: Negligence 443
- V: Presumed Intent 459
- 9 Strict Responsibility 472
- 10 Mistake of Fact 506
- 11 Ignorance of the Law 526
- 12 Vicarious and Corporate Liability 548
- 13 Drunkenness 561
- I: Expert Evidence on Issue of Drunkenness 571
- II: Drunkenness and Specific Intent 574
- III: Effect of Drugs on Mental Capacity 589
- IV: Public Drunkenness 590
- 14 Insanity 597
- I: Stages of Criminal Process in which Insanity may be Relevant 597
- A: Certification before trial 597
- B: Fitness to stand trial 598
- C: Insanity as a defence 602
- D: Who can raise the insanity issue? 603
- E: Effect on a requisite mental state 606
- F: Sentence 611
- G: Transfer from penal institution to mental hospital 614
- H: Executive clemency 615
- II: Insanity as a Defence 616
- III: Alternatives to M'Naghten 645
- IV: Form of Expert Testimony 655
- 15 Automatism 659
- I: Conviction for Causing Death? 660
- II: Proving Automatism 664
- III: Relation to Insanity 667
- IV: Provocation 685
- 16 Some Aspects of Excusable Conduct: Necessity, Duress, and Self-Defence 700
- I: Necessity 700
- II: Duress 717
- III: Self-Defence 726
- 17 The Trial Process 737
- I: Pre-Trial Procedures 738
- II: The Trial of a Juvenile in Adult Court 746
- III: The Preliminary Inquiry 751
- IV: Change of Venue 763
- V: Choosing the Jury 765
- VI: Opening Statements 770
- VII: Evidentiary Problems 782
- A: The use of photographs of the victim 783
- B: The use of similar fact evidence 791
- C: Failure of the accused to testify 798
- VIII: Addresses to the Jury 802
- IX: The Charge to the Jury 807
- 18 Double Jeopardy 821
- I: Early Termination 821
- II: When will a Dismissal be a Bar? 826
- III: The Special Pleas 829
- IV: Issue Estoppel 835
- V: Splitting a Case 849
- VI: Multiple Convictions 868
- VII: Appeals and New Trials 872
- VIII: Problems in a Divided Jurisdiction 876
- 19 Sentencing 880
- I: Problems 880
- II: Cases on Sentencing 882
- III: Readings on Sentencing 913
- Supplementary Material 930
- Index 946
- A 946
- B 946
- C 946
- D 947
- E 947
- F 947
- G 948
- H 948
- I 948
- J 948
- K 948
- L 948
- M 948
- N 949
- O 949
- P 949
- Q 949
- R 949
- S 950
- T 950
- U 950
- V 950
- W 950
