04-06-2020 21:43 via saultonline.com

Women’s group angered by ‘intoxication’ ruling but concern called overblown

TORONTO — A court ruling allowing people accused of sexual assault or other violent crimes to argue they were so intoxicated they didn’t know what they were doing has angered women’s-rights activists but civil libertarians call the criticism unwarranted. A decades-old law had banned such a defence but Ontario’s top court this week declared it […]
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