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View Poll Results: How would you reform Canada's justice system?
Bring back the death penalty 3 16.67%
Three-strikes and you're out mandatory life imprisonment for repeat offendors 6 33.33%
All judges to be elected and accountable to the public 4 22.22%
Texas-style supermax prisons 0 0%
GPS-based lifelong monitoring for all violent ex-convicts 2 11.11%
Mandatory minimum sentences to be served in full 2 11.11%
Victims to have the final say in the criminal's sentence 0 0%
Nothing, our criminal justice system is just fine 1 5.56%
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Old 07-02-2003, 08:23 PM
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I guess it was wrong to invoke english common law there. What I meant was that the laws are based upon the opinions, actions, etc. of the people, and that means that as a citizen, I can do my part to form the laws. The back of the ticket itself says I can go to court, plead guilty, and then "make submissions as to penalty", which I understand to mean I can get down on me knees and grovel. If no one ever argued against laws, we'd have a pretty rotten system.
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