Homicide

This course provides searing first-hand accounts of defending and prosecuting cases of homicide in Canadian courts. Based on chapters from Tough Crimes: True Cases by Top Canadian Criminal Lawyers,” this course contains cases by Earl Levy QC, Justice Peter Martin, John Rosen, Justice Fred Ferguson, and William Smart QC. Killings of humans by other humans are crimes of homicide and include first degree and second-degree murder, and voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. This course, dealing with cases of homicide, is part of the True Cases Professional Development Series that explores the precepts of criminal justice: the presumption of innocence, the right to a defence, reasonable doubt, and the importance of juries.