Murder during unlawful confinement, detention and right to a lawyer

This week on Legally Speaking with Michael Mulligan: In Canada, murder can be either first or second degree. A conviction for either kind of murder results in a mandatory life sentence. With first-degree murder, however, a person must wait 25 years before they can even ask for parole. For second-degree, the judge can decide how long someone would need to wait before being allowed to ask for parole, from 10 to 25 years. The most common murder can become first-degree is when the murder is pla...