Legal Issues In Policing
By LIIP
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Episodes: 144
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Legal Issues in Policing (LIIP) is the podcast blending the demands of the book with the rulings from the bench through the lens of the badge. Police Officers with a solid understanding of the law and their legal powers are more confident, competent and effective. Each episode will examine a legal issue in policing by reviewing current Canadian criminal case law from coast to coast to coast.
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E144| Crown cannot create your "WHY".
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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E143| Does a “NO TRESPASSING” sign vitiate implied licence?
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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E142| An automobile, artificial illumination & an arrest. Adequate articulation or wishful thinking?
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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E141| A tip, a trip & a takedown. Building RGB for a big bust.
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May 26, 2026 |
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E140| Update: A Singer, the sequel & solving an unresolved issue.
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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E139| CYA. Can you articulate?
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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E138| Knock & talk. Purpose, privacy & the police.
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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E137| SCC — Data, decisions & division.
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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E136| A man, a mall & a menacing machete. Assessing a stop, safety searches & the right to counsel.
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Mar 07, 2026 |
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E135| Public safety, parole & the power of arrest.
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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E134| A Christmas message.
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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E133| To arrest or not (2) arrest? That is the question.
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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E132| Patients, paramedics, privacy & passive police presence. Potted plant or probing participant?
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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E131| s. 10(b) implementational delay & failure to communicate.
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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E130| Suspected drug deal, no seatbelt & a traffic stop. Pretext or proper police purpose?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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E129| A raised shirt, an underwear waistband & a baggie of blow. When is a search a 'strip search'?
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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E128| Are you smarter than a Supreme Court judge? Some might expect you to be.
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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E127| Why you do what you do matters!
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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E126| To knock or not to knock?
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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E125| A 'CLEW' to understanding search & seizure basics.
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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E124| A dropped 911, possible domestic & pocketed cocaine. Was safety search sensible?
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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E123| Did arrest of wrong man make it unlawful?
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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E122| Test for arrest — cumulative, commonsensical & contextual.
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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E121| Canada's overall crime down↓; assaults on officers up↑.
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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E120| A fenced yard, flight from arrest, a fight & Feeney.
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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E119| Does a strip search renew s. 10(b) Charter right to counsel?
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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E118| Independent civilian oversight. Cheers, jeers & years!
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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E117| A tip, taxi, time & 10-20. Unreliable report or reasonable grounds for arrest?
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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E116| Did apartment search warrant authorize entry through building's common areas to execute it?
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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E115| A CPIC check, failure to communicate & ca$hing in.
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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E114| Taking inventory of an inventory search.
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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E113| Don't miss the donut by focussing on its hole!
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May 31, 2025 |
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E112| Not all judges sing from the same song sheet.
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May 29, 2025 |
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E111| The King's speech & law enforcement most trusted with privacy.
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May 28, 2025 |
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E110| Right to counsel. Police must proffer grounds for postponement.
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May 21, 2025 |
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E109| Happy 'Police Week' & flight from police.
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May 14, 2025 |
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E108| Vigilant cops, a video camera & an alleged Charter violation. A provincial court POV.
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May 05, 2025 |
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E107| A criminal, a K9 & correcting a confusing Charter conclusion.
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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E106| A prisoner, potty & privacy. Constitutional protection for the ‘daily constitutional’?
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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E105| Charter turns 43! Evidence, admissibility & exclusion.
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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E104| Delaying the right to counsel. Routine practice or reasonable postponement?
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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E103| Supreme Court. Loonies, time lapses & split decisions.
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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E102| I.I.Oh-oh. Data, decision making & delay.
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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E101| No magazine, no problem. Handgun still an operable 'firearm'.
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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E100| Creativity, criticism & crime prevention. Parenting, policing & pragmatism.
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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E99| Mental illness, cognitive capacity & the right to counsel.
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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E98| Case law classic. Location + shock + movement + safety ALERT ⇉ detention ⇉ car search.
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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E97| A pervert, a penis & a parking lot. Public place or private space?
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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E96| Case law classic. Anonymous tip + corroboration ⇉ arrest ⇉ drug bust.
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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E95| Confidence polling in public institutions. How did the police stack up?
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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E94| Shooting at, shot by & a search incident to arrest. Was 11 hour delay between arrest & search reasonable?
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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E93| Lengthy drive to elicit confession. Starlight tour or legitimate police procedure?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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E92| A CSO search condition & reasonable suspicion. Why ask why?
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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E91| A stop, a search & skin colour. Was racial profiling proven?
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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E90| Case law classic. Impaired arrest ⇉ popping trunk + knapsack search = murder evidence!
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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E89| Case law classic. Police stop ⇉ odour + drug arrest + under hood search = PPT cocaine!
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Jan 03, 2025 |
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E88| Crime prevention, creativity & criticism. (Christmas) carding — ‘Ho-ho-ho’ or ‘Bah humbug’.
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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E|87 An arrest, impersonation & exigent circumstances. Was hijacking arrestee’s text messaging to orchestrate drug deal reasonable?
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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E86| A collision, an odour, a medical blood draw & an ITO. Was the reasonable belief standard met?
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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E85| Inspecting an inventory search. Was checking behind 'compartment’s' cover colourable?
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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E84| Search incident to arrest. Just like school — show (explain) your work!
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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E83| A gangster, a garment & a gun. Discoverability & the actual (vs. potential) exercise of police power.
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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E82| Co-resident consent. Was search for firearm lawful?
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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E81| Satchel safety search. Was opening bag after its removal reasonable?
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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E80| Case law classic. Running + recognition + reaction = fanny pack firearm.
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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E79| Actus reus, ASD refusal & a roadside flip-flop.
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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E78| By the numbers. Assaults on peace officers rise.
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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E77| A collision, an EDR extraction & privacy. Did a warrantless vehicle seizure permit a crash data download?
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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E76| Cops or courts, news media or national parliament. Who do Canadian’s trust most?
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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E75| A stop, seizure, arrest & search plus a multi breach Charter challenge.
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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E74| A word to the wise. Read — & understand — your warrant!
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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E73| Dissecting the data. Supreme Court pronouncements — peak or plummet?
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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E72| Search incident to arrest. Snooze, you lose!
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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E71| In God we trust; all others run on CPIC. But be careful!
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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E70| Taking stock of an inventory search.
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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E69| Search incident to arrest. Distance, delay & the common law way!
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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E68| Case law classic. A residence, a ruse, a reaction & reasonable grounds for arrest.
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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E67| Case law classic. Dialogue + ID ≠ detention.
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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E66| Circumstantial evidence, conjecture & common-sense. Is guilt the only reasonable conclusion?
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Jun 07, 2024 |
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E65| Search incident to arrest. Was looking for evidence of motive — WHY someone might flee — proper?
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May 29, 2024 |
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E64| Police, a pole camera & privacy. What gives?
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May 17, 2024 |
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E63| Bench behaving badly. Was out-of-court conversation out-of-bounds?
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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E62| Birthday bash. Charter turns 42 today!
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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E61| Slicing & dicing grounds. Was breathalyzer demand reasonable?
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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E60| Lawful arrest renders resistance unlawful.
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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E59| Inventory search rationale. Proper purpose or inappropriate pretext?
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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E58| Police pwn press, politicians & courts in Canadian confidence polling.
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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E57| Dynamic entries & no-knock no-nos.
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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E56| Animal abuse. Ruling 'wrong in reason, logic & in law'.
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Feb 02, 2024 |
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E55| RGB. The proof is in the picture-perfect prediction provided.
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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E54| Inventory update. No warrant needed to seize pistol.
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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E53| In or out? Excision, exclusion & Charter confusion.
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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E52| Investigative detention, defiance & attaining compliance.
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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E51| Case law classic. Dialogue + detention + redial = drug bust!
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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E50| Case law classic. Anonymous tip ⇉ arrest + search = gun!
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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E49| Case law classic. Anonymous tip ⇉ investigative detention + safety search = gun!
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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E48| Courtroom accountability. Candour, credibility & cross-examination.
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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E47| Chief MacDonald & serious harm, i.e. IIO.
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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E46| Speeding, sobriety screening & a safety search. Did ASD procedure properly prompt protective pat-down?
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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E45| Threatening the po-po. Is police perception pivotal to prosecution?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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E44| Incorrectly identifying individual during investigation. Did it invalidate illicit drug arrest?
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Sep 02, 2023 |
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E43| Police "killing" data. Missing, misleading or misinformation?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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E42| Reason for running. Race, wrongdoing or irrelevant?
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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E41| Traffic stop legitimacy. Ruse or good reason?
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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E40| Reasonable grounds: W > Σ(F1 + F2 + F3 ... + Fn)
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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E39| Important impaired intervals ignored. Crown’s case collapses.
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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E38| Reasonable Ground(s)hog Day. Predictable pattern permits principled pre-planning.
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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E37| First responders second to none. Canadian confidence in cops crushes courts, cabinet & critics.
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May 29, 2023 |
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E36| Right to be, right to see. Lawful presence, probable cause & plain view.
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May 25, 2023 |
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E35| Safety search trigger: Immediate attack, imminent threat or informed risk?
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May 13, 2023 |
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E34| Reasonable grounds: Missing the forest for the trees?
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May 09, 2023 |
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E33| Happy birthday! Plus a s. 10(b) Charter fun fact.
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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E32| Is common sense common? Maybe not so much.
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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E31| Investigative detention. Familiar facts, frantic flight & figuring it out.
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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E30| R.I.P. my brothers.
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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E29| Keeping calm “contemporaneously” with courtroom cross examination.
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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E28| Hardened criminal's Charter challenge chokes in court.
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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E27| Successive search warrant submissions. Subversive or sensible?
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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E26| House arrest or home invasion? Fundamentals, frustration & Feeney.
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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E25| Flare guns, firearms & a "Hail Mary" defence.
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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E24| Canadian Beaver battle. What makes reasonable grounds reasonable?
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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E23| IIO recommendation rejected. Crown clears cop.
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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E22| The Crown is not your lawyer.
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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E21| Can police inventory a passenger's personal belongings?
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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E20| Traffic stop snow job snubbed.
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Nov 26, 2022 |
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E19| Surrey Police Service: "Flicking on-and-off a light switch?"
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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E18| Detain. Or detain not. There is no try.
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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E17| Searching vehicle after arrest on outstanding warrant. Fair or foul?
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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E16| Investigative Detention: Was Leaning In, Lighting Up & Looking About Vehicle Justified?
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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E15| Police expected to school judge on the law?
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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E14| Pedal pusher prompts pat-down plus protective pocket probe.
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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E13| Listener Question: Cheating, child porn & the Charter.
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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E12| Repeat offender, repeat contender. CI's & the 3 C's.
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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E11| Listener Question: Penile swabs & reasonable cause.
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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E10| R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Cops top judges, lawyers & lawmakers.
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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E9| Impaired paddling. Is a canoe a vessel?
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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E8| To arrest or not arrest? That is the question.
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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E7| Boxers, briefs & beltlines. What is a 'strip search'?
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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E6| Making a mistake. Is it fatal to your reasonable grounds?
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Jun 24, 2022 |
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E5| Excessive force. What's an appropriate remedy?
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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E4| 'Safe' cracking incident to arrest. Is it reasonable?
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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E3| Inventory searches. Things that make you go hmmm?
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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E2| Butt-crack cocaine? Justifying a strip search.
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May 30, 2022 |
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E1| Are you case law curious?
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May 24, 2022 |