Okay, here is the current tactic of defence lawyers. They subpoena every person imaginable for the case. Every officer that even remotely is in the report, the wagon driver, the cell guys and all the civilians. Then they say that they need a full day in court because of all the witnesses. Getting a full day takes a lot of scheduling, and is pretty hard to get. So they keep piling on the crap.
When everyone shows up for the first time, they come up with some lame excuse and get the case put over. The next time the case doesn't get it's own day or maybe some people are not available this time, and there are backed up other cases to deal with. Then the lawyers just linger and hope the case doesn't get called by the end of the day, then they can argue institutional delay and try to get the charge tossed. Or they can argue the useless charter argument and waste even more time in court. If the thing actually gets to trial, all of a sudden the tool has a big "change of heart" and pleads guilty, wasting everyones time. But even if convicted in a trial, the sentence they get is no different than the one they would have if they plead guilty, so why not fight it? And that is their right to play that game, but it is the judges fault for letting them.
The other cute one is letting their guy stay in jail because they know he will get double time credit for dead time. There is nowhere in law that says anybody should get double time credit, it is just a "thing" that the judges made up and continue to allow. Ignoring the fact that if you are doing dead time you are an arsehole of the highest magnitude and have done either very serious offences or have multiple pending criminal charges. I have seen crack heads with over fourteen different criminal charges, all from separate occasions within a half year span, still get released on recognizances. I could name two clowns currently charged with Attempt Murder that are not in jail.
It goes on.
Anyone can go to court with their crackhead pal and sign a surety for any amount of money. When the a$$hat breaches yet again and gets put in jail again the money is NEVER claimed. And cash bonds are beyond rare for Canadian citizens.
BTW, lawyers are only expensive for the regular citizens. For the lowest layer of protoplasm they are always free, despite the money they make dealing drugs or breaking into homes. They aren't required to spend their welfare money on it either. Our tax dollars hard at work.
There is more, but I was up at 0530 and am up again at the same time every day this week.
