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R v Latimer, [2001] 1 SCR 3 was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in the controversial case of Robert Latimer, ... the death of the victim, Tracy Latimer".
Robert William Latimer (born March 13, 1953) is a Canadian canola and wheat farmer who was convicted of second degree murder in the death of his daughter Tracy Lynn Latimer (born November 23, 1980 – October 24, 1993).
R v Latimer, [1997] 1 SCR 217, was a decision by the Supreme Court of Canada in the controversial case of Robert Latimer, a Saskatchewan farmer convicted of murdering his disabled daughter Tracy. The case involved consideration of arbitrary detention under section 9 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and rights to an explanation for ...
The section has generated some case law, including the essential case R. v. Smith (1987), in which it was partially defined, and R. v. Latimer (2001), a famous case in which Saskatchewan farmer Robert Latimer protested that his long, mandatory minimum sentence for the murder of his disabled daughter was cruel and unusual. The section states: 12.
In R. v. Latimer, 2001 SCC 1, [33] the Supreme Court discussed jury nullification and indicated that it is a duty of the presiding justice to try to prevent it from occurring. Perhaps the most famous cases of jury nullification in Canada were the various trials of Henry Morgentaler , who openly operated a private abortion clinic in violation of ...
R v Bissonnette, 2022 SCC 23 is a ... The mandatory sentences for murder have been upheld by the Supreme Court in R v Luxton and R v Latimer, for first and second ...
Forty-two years ago today, the world lost J.R.R. Tolkien, ... The professor retired from teaching in 1959, and was graced with more and more literary fame until his death on September 2, 1973 at ...
This is a list of opinions written by Antonio Lamer during his tenure as on the Supreme Court of Canada between March 28, 1980, and January 6, 2000.. Note: This part of the list is incomplete