I just heard on the news that if you are arrested in Canada, you have a right to call a lawyer ONCE before being questioned but aren't allowed to have a lawyer present while being questioned unlike your Miranda rights in the U.S.
No such thing as a justice system ..It's more a Legal system ..No matter what country your from .Unless you can afford a Good Liar, I mean Lawyer, have some close friends in high places, and a good grasp on all that mind numbing leagleese ..Then The U.S. model is better...Canada's legal system is better only when you gots no $Money$.....No 1 to call...When there's just No other Choice you are given but guilty..Who ya gonna call?..The Justice Supreme ?.Joe Brown , Judge Judy ?...Guilty Untill proven innocent...America has a better legal system than all other countries though ...More choice ..1. Lethal,.2.Gas..3..Electric..SOoooo ...I guess you could say "America" has a more "JUST" Legal system . .(.?? )
Justice for the civilized ...Legal Death to the Vile, Barbaric, Animal Scum Bags..(.After their 1 phone call to a Lawyer of course..)
Lots of lawyer basing here.
What will any of you do when you REALLY need one?
Yeah, JLM, in my haste to make my point, I DID omit the "H".
And much as hate to admit it, the alleged "slime" deserves protection until they are convicted and proven to be "slime".
Sadly, some lawyers think and live by "the end justifies the means".
I just heard on the news that if you are arrested in Canada, you have a right to call a lawyer ONCE before being questioned but aren't allowed to have a lawyer present while being questioned unlike your Miranda rights in the U.S.
Call one, the best I can afford.Lots of lawyer basing here.
What will any of you do when you REALLY need one?
I have no problems with lawyers helping people who really need it? What I have a problem is lawyers who look for loop holes to get slime acquitted.
Sadly, some lawyers think and live by "the end justifies the means".
We all have the right to equal treatment under the law, once we start making laws or exceptions based on one's lot in life we are asking for trouble, (oops, I guess we've already started doing that, no wonder our justice system is whacky). Anyway, it is not always slime that gets aquitted by a "loophole". I've known cases where evidence was thrown out because a search warrant was invalid or a search was conducted beyond the scope of the warrant. In one bizarre case a nighttime raid was conducted on a rural home, it was a dynamic entry and all occupants, including children were held face down at gunpoint. During the search an old unregistered rifle was found and the homeowner was charged with firearms offences, even though the police had raided the wrong house. I don't know the eventual outcome but I heard the case got tossed and the rifle returned after much legal wrangling. Such gross violations of rights do happen to law abiding folk, laws that protect the criminals are there to also protect us, and sometimes it takes a lawyer to find where our rights have been violated.
It would be interesting to hear all the details about this because it doesn't sound right. You have the right to retain and instruct counsel without delay once arrested.
What the court said is that you do not have the right to insist that your lawyer be present during questioning. In the US, as soon as a suspect says 'I want my lawyer', the cops are not permitted to do any more questioning until the lawyer is there. Not the case in Canada, they can keep questioning you.
and, as a suspect, you can just sit there with your mouth shut untill you see a lawyer.
Yep, there is no way they (without breaking arms and legs) can make you talk.
Exactly. The absolute best thing is to keep quiet. Don't answer any questions.
But people have a hard time doing that.
What the court said is that you do not have the right to insist that your lawyer be present during questioning. In the US, as soon as a suspect says 'I want my lawyer', the cops are not permitted to do any more questioning until the lawyer is there. Not the case in Canada, they can keep questioning you.