Life sentence
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Loi et crime
Audio avec voix humaine
Résumé
When Christie Blatchford wandered into a Toronto courtroom in 1978 for the start of the first criminal trial she would cover as a newspaper reporter, little did she know she was also at the start of a self-imposed life sentence.… She has been reporting from Canadian courtrooms ever since. Back in '78, she loved the courts, lawyers and judges, but slowly, surely, she suffered a loss of faith. It was at the recent Mike Duffy trial she had the epiphany: judges are the new senators, unelected, unaccountable and overly entitled. Yet unlike senators, they continue to get away with it because any questioning by government or its agents is deemed an intrusion onto judicial independence. Blatchford revisits trials from throughout her career and asks about judges playing with the truth, bad or troubled judges, and how judges are handmaidens to the state, as in the Bernardo trial when a small-town lawyer and an intellectual writer were pursued with more vigor than Karla Homolka. 2016.