By Cristin Schmitz ( May 13, 2022, 4:52 PM EDT) -- Advising Parliament that a constitutionally compliant new law to hold extremely intoxicated people accountable for violent crimes could be enacted, the Supreme Court of Canada has 9-0 struck down as unconstitutional s. 33.1 of the Criminal Code which barred those accused of committing violence-based offences, after voluntarily consuming intoxicants, from raising the defence of non-mental-disorder automatism....