Justice committee  I think the proposed modification to the bail law has value as it's written. I think of it like this. The crown prosecutor has a set of tools that he can use to try to get bail denied for an accused, and the Criminal Code lays them out. This gives him one more tool, one more scre

Justice committee  The point you raise, sir, I think is the crux of the bail issue, and I guess there are two basic facts I'd like to.... A court cannot get it right every time. It can't be done. There's never enough information for a court to be perfectly right every time. There will be errors. I

Justice committee  You mentioned the famous quote about “Better ten...”, right? There was a great counter I came across while researching my book. Some theoreticians or jurists or whoever said essentially--I can't remember the exact quote and I will paraphrase--that any way you turn it, it's still

Justice committee  I'm not sure I'm the one who should try to answer that. Mr. Andrews has proposed a bill that addresses the protection of children, but I propose to protect the entire population of innocent people. Shirley Turner could have just as easily killed Kate, me, or anyone else who anger

Justice committee  I've made no secret since Zachary's murder that I think anyone accused of murder should be denied bail, period, and I believe these five points support that. If you can't do that, then at least reverse the onus so that the defendant has to bring something more than a promise. Shi

Justice committee  Yes.

Justice committee  Andrew was murdered in Pennsylvania.

Justice committee  May I clarify that?

Justice committee  The police in Pennsylvania were building a case against her, and one of the key pieces of evidence--it's long and complicated, like every criminal case--was cellphone records proving that she was actually in Pennsylvania at the time of the killing. They had a lot of other evidenc

Justice committee  The murder took place on November 5, 2001. She fled on November 12, 2001, and she was formally charged about two weeks after that. So there was no arrest warrant for her until November 29, 2001, I think.

Justice committee  Thank you. First I'd like to thank Mr. Andrews and Senator Banks for taking up this issue and introducing legislation to improve this bail situation. Here are five facts I want to put in evidence with this committee: murderers are dangerous; most people accused of murder actual