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E71| In God we trust; all others run on CPIC. But be careful!
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In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Williams, 2024 ONCA 69 where police — relying on CPIC — arrested a man for breaching a no-contact condition of his undertaking and, following a search of his vehicle, found a loaded handgun. It turned out an exception to the no-contact condition was in play (i.e., there was no breach) but the police failed to check a different and easily accessible database which would have alerted them to its applicability. Were the grounds for arrest objectively…
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