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Old 04-19-2009
Proceeds of crime
The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down a challenge to a provincial law enabling seizure of proceeds of crime.  Under the provincial law, proceeds could be seized under a civil action, without a conviction for a crime having taken place.

A report appeared in the Vancouver Sun.

The challenge appears to have stressed the jurisdictional issues.  (In Canada, criminal law is a matter for the federal government: the provinces do not make their own criminal laws.)  However, there is also the matter of burden of proof.  Under criminal law (under a Common Law system, at any rate), the charge must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.  Civil cases are tried on the balance of probabilities (or evidence).  Therefore, proceeds of crime legislation could, potentially, be used against criminals where there is not sufficient evidence to prove a criminal case, but where evidence could point to someone "probably" profiting from criminal activity ...

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mlib_signalulaw2alaw

mlib_SignaluLaw2ALaw(3MLIB)				    mediaLib Library Functions				       mlib_SignaluLaw2ALaw(3MLIB)

NAME

       mlib_SignaluLaw2ALaw - ITU G.711 m-law and A-law compression and decompression

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -lmlib [ library... ]
       #include <mlib.h>

       mlib_status mlib_SignaluLaw2ALaw(mlib_u8 *acode, const mlib_u8 *ucode, mlib_s32 n);

DESCRIPTION

       The  mlib_SignaluLaw2ALaw()  function performs ITU G.711 m-law and A-law compression and decompression in compliance with the ITU (formerly
       CCITT) G.711 specification.

PARAMETERS

       The function takes the following arguments:

       acode	       A-law code array.

       ucode	       m-law code array.

       n	       Number of samples in the input array.

RETURN VALUES

       The function returns MLIB_SUCCESS if successful. Otherwise it returns MLIB_FAILURE.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT-Safe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mlib_SignalALaw2Linear(3MLIB),  mlib_SignalALaw2uLaw(3MLIB),  mlib_SignalLinear2ALaw(3MLIB),  mlib_SignalLinear2uLaw(3MLIB),  mlib_Signalu-
       Law2Linear(3MLIB), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    9 Nov 2004					       mlib_SignaluLaw2ALaw(3MLIB)