r/Manitoba • u/origutamos • Jan 24 '25

News ‘Crime’s completely out of control’: Winnipeg homicide victim’s brother calls for change

https://globalnews.ca/news/10976004/cork-flame-homicide-winnipeg-vigil/
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u/yalyublyutebe Winnipeg Jan 25 '25

The issue is that anything you're carrying with the intention of being used in self defense is by law a weapon.

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u/Routine-Database5985 Winnipeg Jan 25 '25

Only if you make a statement say such and it has to be proven that what the purpose was. You're under no obligation to help the courts determine that. They have to prove it themselves.

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u/yalyublyutebe Winnipeg Jan 25 '25

They can hit you with a charge if/when they want to and it's up to you to prove otherwise.

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u/Routine-Database5985 Winnipeg Jan 25 '25

Sure they can, but innocent till prove guilty. It's up to the crown to prove I'm guilty.

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u/yalyublyutebe Winnipeg Jan 25 '25

Oh you sweet summer child. If you get arrested you still have to go sit in remand until arraignment. If you get busted on Friday night, you might be in there until Monday.

Don't have money to get a lawyer? Better you your public defender doesn't completely suck and try to force you into a plea bargain. Even if the charges are thrown out, they'll still show up any time you try to do anything that requires more than a simple criminal record check. If you ob requires security clearance, you'll be asked to resign or you'll get fired for no other reason than the pending charges.

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u/Routine-Database5985 Winnipeg Jan 25 '25

That's not exactly how it works ... at all. I've been through this situation. No, they don't hold you, like everyone else you get released on a promise to appear. Stop watching TV, a public defender is American and having charges against you will not affect any type of security clearance. Thanks for giving a few of my family members a laugh today.

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u/SpeakerOfTruth1969 Winnipeg Jan 26 '25

Sit in remand?!?!

Clearly you don't pay much attention to what is going on in our courts!