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This is a database of lists of cases connected to particular criminal law issues. You can read the full text for most of the cases listed by visiting https://www.canlii.org/. If you are a law student, student-at-law, or a lawyer and you have additional cases that should be added to this list, please contact us at the email address at the bottom of this page. This portion of the database contains notes (some of which are quite old) made by the author and various students.

R. v. J-L.J.

[2002] 2 S.C.R. 600

Facts

Supreme Court of Canada

The accused was charged with a series of sexual assaults on 2 male children. He tendere the evidnece of a psychiartist to establish that in all probability a serious sexual deviand had inflicted the abuse, including anal intercourse, and no such deviant personality triats were disclosed by the accused in various tests including penile plethysmography.

Reasons

Supreme Court of Canada

After a voir dire, the trial judge excluded the expert evidence becasue it purported to sho only lack of general disposition and was not saved by the "distinctive group" exception recognized in Mohan.

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