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Rahim Jaffer pleads guilty to careless driving
Former Conservative MP Rahim Jaffer pleaded guilty to careless driving Tuesday and was sentenced to a $500 fine, while cocaine possession and drunk driving charges against the one-time anti-drug activist were withdrawn.
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on Mar 9th, 2010 and filed under ctv.
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“careless driving” is contrary to the provincial offences act. It is an offence that is heard in so called “Traffic Court”. When someone is convicted of careless driving they do not recieve a criminal code conviction. Police charges that are contrary to the criminal code are “NOT” heard in traffic court for example “impaired operation of a motor vehicle”. Another example is this “Drive while disqualified” under section 259-4 is contrary to the criminal code. “Drive under suspension” is contrary to the provincial offences act. They both mean that driving is prohibited but they are under different sections and are heard in two completely different places. Provincial offences court judges don’t hear impaired cases and criminal court judges don’t hear careless driving cases…This is why it is very disturbing that Rahim Jaffer was able to plead guilty to a charge that in fact he wasn’t even guilty of…Normally in court when an accused plee bargains to have charges dropped he pleads to the more serious charge of the charges and the Crown withdraws the less serious charges. In my oppinion these charges that Rahim Jaffer were facing were just as serious if not even more damaging than the charge that put the third man behind bars in the David Virgo case…Rahim Jaffer is a coward. He should of plead guilty to all the charges. He should of asked the judge for mercy and made a public apoligy and set the standards where they should be…But he didn’t. All he did was create a big mess in the Judicial system. He should be ashamed of himself.