Supreme Court rules extreme intoxication can be used as a defence in violent crimes
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The Supreme Court of Canada ruled last week that defendants accused of violent crimes can use self-induced extreme intoxication as a defence. We discuss the implications with Danielle Robitaille, a defence lawyer who represented Thomas Chan, who fatally injured his father while highly intoxicated; and Elizabeth Sheehy, a professor emerita at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law.