GUILTY or NOT? CDN / Case library / Categories
Every case in the library, grouped by what it is really about. A case can appear in more than one category — a firearm-possession charge is often a Charter case underneath.
GUILTY or NOT? CDN version is the daily Canadian criminal case puzzle, hosted by Every Defence LLP: one real Canadian criminal case a day. Read the facts as the court had them, weigh the Crown against the defence, decide GUILTY or NOT, then see what the court actually decided.
Possession, careless storage, pointing, discharging and trafficking — the Criminal Code firearm and weapons offences, and what the Crown has to prove about the gun itself.
18 cases →Drug charges, and the cases where drugs or alcohol sit at the heart of what happened — from importing heroin to a psychotic break on magic mushrooms.
2 cases →Stops, detentions, searches and warrants under the Charter — and whether evidence obtained in breach is excluded under s. 24(2).
8 cases →Self-defence, duress, necessity, consent, automatism and not criminally responsible — the cases where the act is admitted and the fight is over whether the law excuses it.
2 cases →Circumstantial cases, eyewitness identification, surveillance video, fingerprints and intercepts — when the question is not what the law says but whether the Crown has proved who, and what.
6 cases →A new real Canadian case every day. Read the brief, weigh the Crown against the defence, commit to a verdict, then see what the court decided — and why.