Table 3
Cases by decision, adult criminal court, Canada, 2008/2009
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Jurisdiction | Total cases | Decision | |||||||
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Guilty | Stay/withdrawn | Acquittal | Other | ||||||
number | number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | number | percent | |
Total | 392,907 | 260,649 | 66.3 | 114,978 | 29.3 | 12,446 | 3.2 | 4,834 | 1.2 |
Newfoundland and Labrador | 5,354 | 4,151 | 77.5 | 1,163 | 21.7 | 11 | 0.2 | 29 | 0.5 |
Prince Edward Island | 1,244 | 942 | 75.7 | 287 | 23.1 | 9 | 0.7 | 6 | 0.5 |
Nova Scotia | 12,928 | 8,625 | 66.7 | 3,944 | 30.5 | 273 | 2.1 | 86 | 0.7 |
New Brunswick | 8,128 | 6,483 | 79.8 | 1,332 | 16.4 | 224 | 2.8 | 89 | 1.1 |
Quebec | 67,937 | 51,319 | 75.5 | 6,515 | 9.6 | 8,876 | 13.1 | 1,227 | 1.8 |
Ontario | 149,937 | 89,721 | 59.8 | 57,600 | 38.4 | 964 | 0.6 | 1,652 | 1.1 |
Manitoba | 17,189 | 11,132 | 64.8 | 5,985 | 34.8 | 66 | 0.4 | 6 | 0.0 |
Saskatchewan | 22,591 | 15,242 | 67.5 | 7,033 | 31.1 | 194 | 0.9 | 122 | 0.5 |
Alberta | 56,614 | 37,070 | 65.5 | 17,752 | 31.4 | 643 | 1.1 | 1,149 | 2.0 |
British Columbia | 46,472 | 32,760 | 70.5 | 12,222 | 26.3 | 1,105 | 2.4 | 385 | 0.8 |
Yukon | 948 | 640 | 67.5 | 281 | 29.6 | 12 | 1.3 | 15 | 1.6 |
Northwest Territories | 1,628 | 1,170 | 71.9 | 425 | 26.1 | 15 | 0.9 | 18 | 1.1 |
Nunavut | 1,937 | 1,394 | 72.0 | 439 | 22.7 | 54 | 2.8 | 50 | 2.6 |
Note: Due to rounding, percentages may not add to 100. Found guilty decisions include absolute and conditional discharges. In Newfoundland and Labrador, the terms 'acquitted' and 'dismissed' are used interchangeably. Stay/withdrawn includes cases stayed, withdrawn, dismissed and discharged at preliminary inquiry. Other decisions includes final decisions of found not criminally responsible, waived in province/territory, or waived out of province/territory. This category also includes mistrials, the court's acceptance of a special plea (e.g. autrefois acquit), cases which raised Charter arguments or cases where the accused was found unfit to stand trial. In jurisdictions not providing superior court data (i.e., Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan), the other decision category includes charges having a committal for trial in superior court as the decision on the final appearance in provincial court. Information from Quebec's municipal courts (which account for approximately one quarter of federal statute charges in that province) are not yet collected. Coverage for Adult Criminal Court Survey data as at 2008/2009 is estimated at 95% of adult criminal court caseload. Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Adult Criminal Court Survey. |
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