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Ontario’s Crown prosecutors insist upon confusing self-defense with assault

Published September 4, 2012 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Abusive Prosecutions, Common Sense, Self-Defense


Moses Mahilal
Moses Mahilal is accused of assaulting the man who invaded his home and threatened his girlfriend’s mother’s life.

Imagine you are out with your girlfriend for the evening.  You have a lovely time together and come home in the wee hours of the morning, only to find your front door wide open.  Your girlfriend’s mother lives with both of you so your concern for her safety immediately goes into overdrive.

This being Canada you’re not legally allowed to carry a firearm, so you run to the kitchen and arm yourself with a kitchen knife, the only defensive tool close at hand.  While you hear nothing, your girlfriend’s mother’s bedroom is upstairs and as you round the corner you stare in horror at what’s sitting at the bottom of the stairs.

In a bizarre twist your home invader has had the courtesy to take his shoes off before ransacking your home.

Running upstairs you discover the intruder hiding behind your girlfriend’s mother’s bedroom door.  He attacks you and you defend yourself with the knife you grabbed in the kitchen.  The home invader is injured in the struggle, seriously, but your girlfriend’s mother is safe and that’s all that matters.

God only knows what could have happened had you not arrived home when you did.

You call the police who come and arrest the home invader… and then they arrest you for the “crime” of assaulting the man who invaded your home.

Exactly what country is this again???

That’s precisely the question Moses Mahilal asked himself as he sat in a jail cell, under arrest for the “crime” of self-defense and defending the life of his loved ones.

This is a horror story we hear over and over across Canada, but never more often than from Ontario, where Crown prosecutors seem to despise anyone daring to actually defend themselves, despite the fact that self-defense is advocated in our Criminal Code.


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First, there is the injustice of the victim of crime is the one charged with a criminal offense.  Then there is the criminal trial process, itself a punishment and humiliation, not to mention the hefty legal bill for a lawyer to prove you did nothing wrong.  Sadly, cases like this end up in court instead of the person being hailed as a hero for preventing some awful crime from being committed.

Moses Mahilal should be given a medal for what he did, not a massive legal bill.

Kino Johnson, the home invader who was wounded, freely admits that he is the one who is at fault. As Betsy Powell of the Toronto Star wrote:

Johnson has already admitted he was unlawfully inside the upscale home near Keele St. and Eglinton Ave. W. On June 28, he pleaded guilty in Ontario Superior Court to break and enter and two counts of possessing stolen property, including jewellery taken after he broke into an unoccupied Finch Ave. W. highrise apartment.

For his part, being almost killed has gotten through to Kino Johnson in a way that nothing else could.  Johnson has a lengthy criminal record already for robbery, theft and assault and his past criminal convictions didn’t have any impact on his life choices.

“I did almost lose my life, so the way I look at things is completely different. I wake up every morning and I give God thanks,” Johnson told Justice Mary Lou Benotto before being sentenced. “I want to be good to society and turn my life around.”

While I think it’s great that his near-death experience has made him want to turn his life around, I’m disgusted with Crown prosecutors who insist on sending the message to Canadians that self-defense will not be tolerated.  It’s obscene.

Even if Moses Mahilal is acquitted, and I pray to God that he will be, the very fact that he’s been charged is offensive to the very concept of our Rights and Freedoms under our Constitution.  The process is the punishment and there isn’t a shred of justice to be found anywhere in it.

Mahilal’s lawyer, Daniel Brown, agrees.  He is utterly baffled why the Crown is insisting on charging his client with a crime given that the actual criminal in this case has pleaded guilty and is currently incarcerated.

“We give people like this medals, not criminal records,” Brown said in an interview this week. The intruder “may have been armed or may have been violent or had accomplices. My client acted appropriately, under the circumstances.”

The way I see it the answer to the question of why Moses Mahilal is facing criminal charges is really quite simple.

Canadian police and Crown prosecutors don’t like citizens who have the audacity to defend themselves.  As a result of that wrongheaded attitude they feel compelled to send a message to Canadians in the hopes that we will meekly lie down like lambs for slaughter instead of doing the right thing as Moses Mahilal did, and protect his girlfriend’s mother with everything he had.

That’s called being a man, and that will not condoned by the Toronto Police Services or Ontario’s Crown prosecutors.

It’s unfortunate, if I dare be so understated.

Long gone are the days where we commended men for protecting their loved ones.  Now we insist on tossing them in jail instead of holding them up as wonderful examples of how a man should act.

Society as a whole loses out when we prosecute the victims of crime, and faith in both the police and our justice system plummet.

That’s the unintended consequence of the great Nanny State though… honour,  dignity and manhood are despised while injustice and ingratitude abound.

It’s another sad day for Canada, for Canadians and for our shredded Rights and Freedoms…

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Tags: abusive prosecution, Citizen’s Arrest and Self Defence Act, home invasion, Justice Mary Lou Benotto, Kimberly Walsh, Kino Johnson, lawyer Daniel Brown, Moses Mahilal, Sarah Walsh, self-defense, self-defense will not be tolerated, the process is the punishment

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Comments

  1. Bud Young says

    September 4, 2012 at 11:57 pm

    The Toronto Police services among many others are woefully under trained and understaffed.
    Their commanding officers particularly, cannot perceive the idea that ordinary citizens have the right and should exercise the right to self defense.
    They (police) see themselves as being upstaged in these cases which is unheard of in their eyes and they see themselves as appearing useless, actually in some cases they can do more harm than good by being ill trained and physically unable to perform their duties.
    This unfortunate concept seems to be widely supported by the crown councils across the country.
    The one thing we must never forget is that we DO have the right to self-defense whether our twisted legal system says so or not!!!
    Stand up before the judge (without a lawyer), look him in the eye and tell him that you believe you have saved a life, yours or someone elses, because of your direct and timely action.
    If you believe that you would be incarcerated for exercising this right in a perfectly (legal) manner, then I suggest that you get out of this country before it is too late…

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  2. martin says

    September 6, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    i hope that a crown prosecutor gets attacked and see what happens if he takes out the criminal. to the police that charged the homeowner you’re an idiot

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  3. Don from BC says

    September 6, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    This is why we need Castle Doctrine enshrined into our laws and possibly as an amendment to the Canada Act.

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  4. Newsblaster says

    September 27, 2012 at 4:49 pm

    This nonsense won’t stop unless the criminal code specifically states that a person shall not be charged with an offence for defending his home, or his loved ones. It is the Crown in Ontario and the Ontario police jealously guarding their turf once again. This has to be stopped.

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  5. Kyle says

    May 3, 2013 at 8:47 am

    This is a terrible injustice to the man defending his home and family from a intruder. The law states you can defend yourself to the point of taking the offending partys life if you feel and believe that the attacker will not stop or your life is in immediate danger. Why would the crown even try to prosecute this case, good thing they wised up and dropped the charges. But for this man to even go through what he did with all this is a grave injustice. To the police that charged him, IDIOT does not say enough. Kudos to Moses for protecting his home and family.

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