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E127| Why you do what you do matters!
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In this episode, Mike discusses the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decision R. v. Brabant, 2025 SKCA 101 where police arrested a man without reasonable grounds to do so. When the man was searched, police found meth in his pocket and a sawed-off rifle under his sweater. Although the trial judge found Charter breaches — arbitrary detention and unreasonable search — the evidence was nevertheless admitted because the police could have detained the man and patted him down for safety and discovered the evidence anyway. Did the trial…
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