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Michael Spratt
@mspratt
Partner at AGP Law; Criminal Lawyer; Podcast host; Writer; Baseball Fanatic; Political Junkie; Nerd; Will Spoil; @emilietaman spouse
Feb 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
Well there it is, @JimWatsonOttawa (pulling some procedural BS) has @ScottMoffatt21 and @Laura_Dudas move a motion to remove @dianedeans and @MeehanCarolAnne from the Police Services Board - absolutely disgusting. ImageImageImage The motion appoints @Eli_ElChantiry to chair the OPSB and Jan Harder to the OPSB. This is shocking and disgusting. I have never thought less of Moffat, Watson, and Dudas.
Mar 13, 2020 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
There is no real plan here. This is going to be bad. Here is why... 1. Jails are over crowded and filthy at normally. This is a perfect breading ground for transmutation.
Apr 19, 2019 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
I have some thoughts on Greenspan's #SNCLavalin opinion piece. I know Brian is a pillar of the criminal defence bar. He is a legend. He also almost offered me an articling job. This is why it pains me to say this. His opinion piece is a dumpster fire: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl… Brian completely misrepresents the AG's role to independently make decisions. Isolation may breed tyranny but that is not what happened in the SNC case - on anyones evidence. In no interpretation of Shawcross doctrine is the idea of an adversarial relationship the the AG a thing.
Mar 10, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Perhaps. But a few points. Judges don’t go back into court to litigate. I worry that this court be seen as an attack on the judiciary. I know many judges. They are all good people. So Maybe we should focus on the politicians who seek to use judges as weapons? The use of judges by politicians for opinions and the constant political suggestion of referring sticky issues to the court for an opinion is bad. But I think the solution of limiting work judges do after retiring is bad bad bad for a number of reasons.
Feb 22, 2019 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
As I sit down to write a piece on yesterdays stunning testimony of Michael Wernick on the Joy Wilson-Raybold / #SNCLavalin affair here are some not so hot takes: ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/… There does not need to be much daylight between what Warnick said & what JWR will say for there to be a big problems.
Nov 17, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A few years back I represented a client charges with a poppy box theft. When I got the brief the crown who agreed to bail was disgusted. So was the court staff. So was anyone who heard about the charge. Frankly, so was I - but then I got to know my client. He was homeless and had big addiction issues. He had a bunch of health issues too. Living on the street can do that - he was only 19 years old. He was remorseful and plead guilty. The judge sentenced him to a couple months jail and required him to write an essay about veterans.
Nov 10, 2018 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
This is full of lies and unconstitutionality. Come and follow me on a journey of discovery.... "Known gang member": Scheer does not define gang - in fact the word "gang" does not appear in the Criminal Code. But there sure is a lot of racist baggage there. So how are we going to define a "known gang member". Scheer provides no criteria - but trust him.