Ignorance of the law now a legal excuse in Canada!

[Tyrannical]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... legal.html

A man has been cleared of raping his wife after a judge ruled that he did not know his behaviour was criminal in Canada.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Smith said prosecutors had failed to establish that the man knew it was against the law to have sex with his wife without her consent.

And Yes it involves Muslims of course.........

[NineBerry]

And it involves the Daily Mail of course, which means that the story is 70% lies and the guy going free was based on some technicality and not him "not knowing that rape is illegal"

[Hermit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... legal.html

A man has been cleared of raping his wife after a judge ruled that he did not know his behaviour was criminal in Canada.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Smith said prosecutors had failed to establish that the man knew it was against the law to have sex with his wife without her consent.

And Yes it involves Muslims of course.........

Now? You'll find that mens rea, a legal principle, has been applied in western jurisdictions since it was introduced in England about 800 years ago. The daily fail made sure not to mention that Superior Court Justice Robert Smith took that principle into consideration when casting his verdict, but the Ottawa Citizen did.

[Rum]

Yep - the Daily Fail edits these sorts of stories to support their own twisted view of the world. The judge said:

'Marriage is not a shield for sexual assault.
'However, the issue in this trial is whether, considering the whole of the evidence, the Crown has proven the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.'

The case of rape 'was not proved', he didn't say rape was OK in marriage or that lack of knowledge was an excuse.

What a rag of a paper and how shameful of Tyrannical to leap on it with such obvious glee.

[Brian Peacock]

Paul Dacre is like one of those sociopaths at work who would try and stop a guy in another department who he has no dealings with getting a promotion because he smiled at him at the Christmas party when Dacre was in a bad mood.

[Tyrannical]

Yep - the Daily Fail edits these sorts of stories to support their own twisted view of the world. The judge said:

'Marriage is not a shield for sexual assault.
'However, the issue in this trial is whether, considering the whole of the evidence, the Crown has proven the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.'

The case of rape 'was not proved', he didn't say rape was OK in marriage or that lack of knowledge was an excuse.

What a rag of a paper and how shameful of Tyrannical to leap on it with such obvious glee.

Well, the Daily Fail has quite a bit more info and quotes.........

The husband denied ever having sex with his wife without consent and also specifically denied the 2002 incident.
His defence was that during the period of the alleged incident, he had been told to abstain from sex after having a hair transplant.
But the judge dismissed it, explaining there was no evidence to show it was standard medical practice to abstain from sex in such cases.
The judge also said the husband was argumentative as a witness and said his defence was unbelievable.

Justice Smith explained: 'I find that the accused probably had sex with his wife on many occasions without her specific consent

Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women calling the ruling 'disappointing'.

[pErvinalia]

Rationalia called Tyrannical falling for the Daily Fail 'disappointing'.

[Rum]

[Hermit]

Well, the Daily Fail has quite a bit more info and quotes.........

It's basically a copy of the Ottawa Citizen article. With the mention of mens rea omitted.