'Prison not deposit': BC kills a flashpoint for the debate about criminal justice

Pierre Poilievre, opposition leader of the federal government, believes that the man who is accused of murdering Surreys Tori Dunn “has no right to deposit”.

The 30-year-old Tori was found on June 16, 2024 with life-threatening injuries in her home in Port Kells. She died later in the hospital.

Adam Mann was charged on June 28th in connection with Tori's death for the second degree. Mann is currently in court for three non -related charges without the murder. None of these charges have been proven in court, and a ban on publication currently includes the details of this charge.

He was recently denied a deposit for a number of charges with which he was exposed, including the murder accusation.

“Prison, not deposit”: Poilievre promises crime against crime

During a Surrey stop on February 4 Surrey Now-Leader This man should never have heard a deposit.

“It should be put in a small prison cell and he should stay there for the rest of his life,” said Piilievre.

Tori's rights and freedoms were injured when she was killed, he added.

“So locked up (repeat violent criminals) and throw away is necessary to maintain the Charter of the right -wing legislative Canadians,” said Poilievre.

When he becomes a prime minister, he said that he would like to “carry out the greatest approach to crimes in Canadian history.

“We will lock these repeat offenders away and throw away the key, and as I say again, this is not only permitted under the charter, but also from the charter,” he said.

However, a criminal defense lawyer told that of the Now leader While “prison, not a deposit” is a catchy slogan, it is more political than more constitutional.

According to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, everyone is innocent until he has proven to be guilty, and it is unconstitutional not to allow a defendant that a criminal defense lawyer, a defense lawyer, is not connected.

“The Charter expressly says that a person who is charged because of a crime just saysaid shame. just sayAnd the Charter also says that we all have the right to be innocent, unless or until we have actually proven to be guilty in a fair and impartial process according to the law. “

“Just say Existed, “said Shamess.” It happens every day in our courts that someone, the circumstances of someone, are so that there is that there is just say To refuse the deposit, but we need a hearing. This is absolutely central, absolutely fundamental to the minimum at least the hearing, so that the judge can mix the circumstances of the person, their history, the alleged crime, facts and all these constitutional principles into one another and decide what to do. “

Criminal register a “key part” of deposit hearing: lawyer

There is a difference between a deposit and the deposit.

During a hearing, “a judge hears the facts or alleged facts about the alleged crime and the circumstances of the accused person and hears submissions from both sides and then makes a decision according to the law and what they have heard,” said Shamess.

“It is also not a binary choice between an automatic stay in prison, although they are considered innocent at this stage, and to released the community to do everything, whenever without rules or supervision,” she said. If an accused is released for the deposit, and a judge can often impose conditions that the accused must follow, and there are consequences if they do not follow them.

The Criminal Code describes three main and secondary reasons why a suspected person is denied deposit or have imposed the conditions: to ensure that they go to court, protect the public and “maintain trust in the judicial administration”.

These “factors are listened to at every deposit that takes place every day in this country. It is wrong to assume that everyone, including repeated violent criminals, will be routinely released into the community without the role of their history,” she said.

If the defendant has a criminal record, he becomes a “key part” of hearings of the deposit.

Shamess added that it was a balancing act with the rights of the people under the Charter of Rights and Freedom.

“There is always a point at which someone increases the right or freedom against that of another, and we have to balance something,” she said. “So what we reconcile with deposit, with the right to cause a deposit with the least minimum to go to a judge, to have the facts of their lives, hear their history, the facts of the alleged crime, and to apply for the law and make the judge a decision.”

“In this way we can reconcile these principles by being able to hear all of this to a judge – and sometimes if there is only cause, refuses the deposit.

It is also important to note that the majority of the deposit, the deposit of which is granted, do not use “let alone reset violently”.

“If you focus more on an outlier case than in any other case than on real evidence.

“All of this is avoidable”

Poilievre added that he was inspired by the Dunn family to “ensure that nobody has to ever experience this hell again”.

“All of this is avoidable, and it is the result of an NDP-liberal judicial system that favors criminals and the most violent, widespread criminals solve to our communities to destroy our families, and that will end when I am Prime Minister.”

Shame does not agree with PILIEVRE; In fact, she said, the current federal government has tightened the deposit laws.

“This current government has presented changes to the Criminal Code that make the liberation more difficult, especially if people have a history of convict due to violent crimes, intimate partner power when a firearm is involved. A change from the Criminal Code was made.”

Bill C-48 came into force on January 4, 2024. The invoice also extends the use of reverse systems for certain criminals. It means that instead of a crown prosecutor in court, it must prove why an accused person should remain behind bars until their legal proceedings, the person whose accused of which should be released.

Shamess added that another approach was necessary because it does not work that it doesn't work. Instead, she said, we should be smart about crime.

“People return to their communities, and when we return them after we cut them off from any support they had, it is, as I have for everyone, to think that this improves public security for everyone,” she said.

“You want to increase the security of the community, reduce crime rates, the way to increase support, living, access to treatment, basic income, not to cut people into prison from your community, your family, your apartment, your employment and a suspected innocent person.”

Tori's father, Aron Dunn, believes that the laws in Canada have not passed his daughter, and she would still be alive if there were real laws to protect them.

“The death of my daughter was unnecessary. It didn't have to happen,” said Dunn.

“Everyone has these great ideas on how the law works until it happens to them,” he said. “I hope for the shame that she never had to endure what I and my family had, I think she would feel much different if it had happened to her daughter or son.”