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| author | Sommer, Elijah |
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| contents | <p>This dossier, prepared for the Court of Appeal for Ontario, provides a chilling indictment of judicial bias manifested through "Linguistic Profiling." It deconstructs the "Judicial Linguistic Trap," wherein the trial judge criminalized the appellant’s use of Toronto Vernacular English (TVE), interpreting cultural syntax as a series of calculated evasions. The analysis highlights the "Loud Fallacy"—the mischaracterization of botanical descriptors as confessions of criminality—and argues that the court's failure to integrate the appellant's history of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) into the Section 34 reasonableness framework constitutes a reversible error. It asserts that the court saw "dishonesty" where there was actually neuro-trauma and "slang" where there was potency-categorization.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Judicial Linguistic Trap: An Investigative Submission on Cultural Syntax, Linguistic Profiling, and Neuro-Trauma Erasure Sommer, Elijah <p>This dossier, prepared for the Court of Appeal for Ontario, provides a chilling indictment of judicial bias manifested through "Linguistic Profiling." It deconstructs the "Judicial Linguistic Trap," wherein the trial judge criminalized the appellant’s use of Toronto Vernacular English (TVE), interpreting cultural syntax as a series of calculated evasions. The analysis highlights the "Loud Fallacy"—the mischaracterization of botanical descriptors as confessions of criminality—and argues that the court's failure to integrate the appellant's history of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) into the Section 34 reasonableness framework constitutes a reversible error. It asserts that the court saw "dishonesty" where there was actually neuro-trauma and "slang" where there was potency-categorization.</p> |
| title | The Judicial Linguistic Trap: An Investigative Submission on Cultural Syntax, Linguistic Profiling, and Neuro-Trauma Erasure |
| url | https://doi.org/10.8654/elijah.3731540 |