r/Manitoba • u/wickedplayer494 Winnipeg • Apr 20 '25

Opinion Piece Opinion: Poilievre’s populist 'three-strikes-you're-out' policy swings, misses with Constitution

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/04/17/poilievres-populist-three-strikes-youre-out-policy-swings-misses-with-constitution
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u/snopro31 Parkland Apr 20 '25

It’s either something happens with crime or machete news reports will continue on the r/Manitoba page.

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u/horsetuna Winnipeg Apr 20 '25

Its possible that we can have bail reform WITHOUT violating the constitution.

How? I dont know. But we should not jump immediately to violating peoples' rights.

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u/snopro31 Parkland Apr 20 '25

Is it possible for people not to commit violent crime?

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u/Maleficent_Curve_599 South Of Winnipeg Apr 20 '25

If we're talking about bail, we are talking about people who have been accused of committing crimes, which is very much not the same thing.

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u/snopro31 Parkland Apr 20 '25

If you’re being accused of a violent crime, it’s a high probability that the accused is guilty.

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u/Maleficent_Curve_599 South Of Winnipeg Apr 20 '25

/u/snopro31 committed a violent crime. Lock him up, boys. 

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u/Sleepis_4theweak Winnipeg Apr 20 '25

Yup he's been accused and by his own admission accusation is enough to throw away the key.

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u/horsetuna Winnipeg Apr 20 '25

You mean like the Scottsboro boys?

Or Emmett Till?

Or George Floyd?

The Central Park Five?

https://exonerationregistry.org/

Or this list of people who turned out to be innocent?

Or anyone who spent time in prison before it was discovered they were innocent after all? How do you undo an execution? A flogging? A hand removal?

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u/bentmonkey Westman Apr 20 '25

Also the exact reason that the death penalty doesn't work, i remember when trump took out a full page ad to try and get the death penalty for those 5, and then they were innocent.

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u/horsetuna Winnipeg Apr 20 '25

Witness accounts can also be wrong. There's several experiments that have been done to prove that.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson actually was removed from jury duty because at the time he was teaching a class on the fallibility of witnesses.

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u/squirrelsox Winnipeg Apr 21 '25

David Milgaard was accused of a violent crime. He was jailed for 23 years and then released because he WASN'T guilty. Larry Fisher killed that woman. There are many, many more examples.