Unfortunately, TV shows and movies have conditioned people to think that every cop/gun owner is a sharpshooter, under high pressure conditions. Cops frequently get asked things like, "Why didn't you just shoot the gun out of his hand?" Then you have an incident, like this one, that reinforces...
Even in the US there is such a things as a OR bond for $XXXX.XX.
There have been a few high profile cases in which someone should have forfeited bail and the judge has specifically balked at taking someone's home. As far as I'm concerned when you act as surety for someone, you should be...
In an ideal world that's exactly how it should go. Picked up for flight from police and exactly the same sort of crime that they were on bail for should land them either in holding, or with a massively increased bond amount that's tantamount to the same thing.
I would be hesitant to credit a hit piece like that, without knowing the full history of criminal charges and releases in Canada. For example if the 2013 charges were his first and he was allowed pretrial release, because of that, then how is the Canadian justice system at fault? None of that...
I'm thinking that evidence came up light and he was caught red-handed, likely on camera. They wouldn't want to test this law with anything less than a slam dunk.
"Death of a Unicorn" - Utterly predictable and we can do better CGI than that. OK, I guess, if you just want to turn your brain off for a couple of hours.
One clear benefit to society is that you don't need to house someone, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, that has an impact on every tax paying citizen. Another is that you convert a net drain to a net contributor. As I have said, previously, where our system falls down is...
How easy something is to steal doesn't mitigate against the theft. The delivery guy is going to be punished by his insurance company.
No idea how the female was involved and the story doesn't make it any more clear.
The guy who actually stole the car is on the hook for everything that he did.
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