Ontario, Canada: Circumstantial evidence enough to convict in child porn cases, Supreme Court rules

Circumstantial evidence enough to convict in child porn cases, Supreme Court rules

Circumstantial evidence can be enough to convict someone of possessing child pornography, the Supreme Court of Canada says. In a decision Friday, the high court ruled unanimously that the Crown does not have to disprove any other possible explanation for how child pornography ends up on a computer owned by an accused. “‘Other plausible theories’ or ‘other reasonable possibilities’ must be based on logic and experience applied to the evidence or the absence of evidence, not on speculation,” Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell wrote in the 32-page decision. “Of course, the line between a ‘plausible theory’ and ‘speculation’ is not ...

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