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Table 7.11 Adult criminal court cases, by type of decision, 2009/2010
Table summary
This table displays the results of table 7.11 adult criminal court cases total decisions, guilty, acquitted, stay and other, calculated using number units of measure (appearing as column headers).
  Total decisions Guilty Acquitted Stay Other
  number
Total cases 403,340 262,616 13,059 122,807 4,858
Total Criminal Code offences 354,491 231,533 11,879 106,794 4,285
Criminal Code (excluding traffic offences) 294,823 183,204 9,778 98,021 3,820
Crimes against the person 95,345 50,219 6,274 37,385 1,467
Homicide 263 131 8 117 7
Attempted murder 193 38 18 125 12
Robbery 4,360 2,800 143 1,357 60
Sexual assault 4,008 1,723 374 1,837 74
Other sexual offences 2,023 1,429 76 500 18
Major assaultNote 1 21,549 11,883 1,553 7,816 297
Common assaultNote 2 38,276 19,434 1,855 16,537 450
Uttering threats 18,337 9,723 1,706 6,551 357
Criminal harassment 3,150 1,660 249 1,141 100
Other crimes against the person 3,186 1,398 292 1,404 92
Property crimes 96,863 61,289 1,578 33,014 982
Theft 42,010 27,408 389 13,914 299
Break and enter 11,422 8,042 341 2,889 150
Fraud 14,957 9,801 182 4,732 242
Mischief 14,716 8,538 396 5,668 114
Possession of stolen property 11,822 6,106 233 5,339 144
Other property crimes 1,936 1,394 37 472 33
Administration of justice 83,530 60,455 1,316 20,604 1,155
Other Criminal Code offences 19,085 11,241 610 7,018 216
Criminal Code traffic offences 59,668 48,329 2,101 8,773 465
Impaired driving 48,111 39,182 1,865 6,723 341
Other Criminal Code traffic offences 11,557 9,147 236 2,050 124
Other federal statute offences 48,849 31,083 1,180 16,013 573
Drug possession 15,272 7,314 32 7,851 75
Drug trafficking 12,709 6,938 154 5,527 90
Youth Criminal Justice Act 1,398 1,006 3 377 12
Residual federal statute offences 19,470 15,825 991 2,258 396
1. Includes unlawfully causing bodily harm, discharging firearms with intent, abductions, assaults against police officers, assaults against other peace or public officers and other assaults.
2. Level 1, or common, assault includes pushing, slapping, punching and face-to-face threats; Level 2 assault is defined as assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm; Level 3, or aggravated, assault is defined as assault that wounds, maims, disfigures or endangers the life of the victim.
Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM table 252-0045.
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