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Record W122484647

Rationalizing Similar Facts: A Comment on R. v. Handy

2003· article· en· W122484647 on OpenAlexaffabout
Hamish Stewart

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCriminal Law and Evidence
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSupreme courtRationalization (economics)ConvictLawValue (mathematics)Reasonable doubtJuryCharacter (mathematics)Criminal trialVerdictFederal Rules of EvidenceAdmissible evidencePsychologyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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The Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R. v. Handy provides a welcome restatement and rationalization of the law governing the admissibility of an accused person's prior bad acts (similar evidence). The court recognizes that evidence of prior bad acts is evidence of bad character. But the court clearly states that such evidence is not admissible for the purpose of showing that the accused has a bad character. Rather, evidence of prior bad acts will be admissible only if it has probative value with respect to a specific, identified, and live issue at the trial and if that probative value outweighs two kinds of prejudicial effects: its tendency to encourage the trier of fact to convict the accused for being a bad person and its tendency to confuse and prolong the trial.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.021
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.048
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.814
Threshold uncertainty score0.375

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0210.048
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0030.005
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0230.034
Scholarly communication0.0140.008
Open science0.0130.005
Research integrity0.1170.072
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.290 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2003
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