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Landmark Cases: Court Case Analysis
A landmark case is a court case that has historical and legal significance, cases that concerns individual rights and liberties (Center, 2015). Landmark cases show holes and gaps in the imperfect legal system which can be used as precedence in order to sheath the rift. Luka Rocco Magnotta is a Canadian former pornographic actor and model who killed and dismembered Lin Jun, a Chinese international student, then mailed his limbs to federal political party offices (Luka Magnotta Explained, 2016). The facts and key elements, the inclusion of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and Criminal Code, and the impact on the legal system and society is what embedded a man’s act of first degree culpable homicide followed by necrophilia, into a landmark case.
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