Canadian justice, Indigenous injustice : the Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie case [epub ed.] 9780773556454, 0773556451

In August 2016 Colten Boushie, a twenty-two-year-old Cree man from Red Pheasant First Nation, was fatally shot on a Sask

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English Year 2019

Table of contents :
Cover
Foreword by John Borrows
1 Introduction
2 From Treaty to “The White Man Governs”
3 Racialized and Politicized Rural Crime and Self-Defence
4 The Investigation, Polarization, and Preliminaries
5 Jury Selection
6 Hang Fire?
7 Indigenous Witnesses on Trial
8 Murder, Manslaughter, and Phantom Self-Defence
9 Acquittal, Decision Not to Appeal, and Aftermath
10 Can We Do Better?
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Canadian justice, Indigenous injustice : the Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie case [epub ed.]
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