E34| Reasonable grounds: Missing the forest for the trees?

2023-05-09

Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Lundy, 2023 BCCA 133 where a police officer arrested a man he believed was trafficking in drugs based on a tip and surveillance observations, all filtered through his experience. But the trial judge didn’t think the officer had enough grounds for an arrest, thereby arbitrarily detaining the man, and unreasonably searching him as an incident to the unlawful arrest. Would you m...

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In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Lundy, 2023 BCCA 133 where a police officer arrested a man he believed was trafficking in drugs based on a tip and surveillance observations, all filtered through his experience. But the trial judge didn’t think the officer had enough grounds for an arrest, thereby arbitrarily detaining the man, and unreasonably searching him as an incident to the unlawful arrest. Would you make the arrest in similar circumstances? Listen and find out what BC’s Court of Appeal had to say when it weighed into the matter.

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