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Legal Issues In Policing
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.
Episodes
- Legal Issues In Policing
E94| Shooting at, shot by & a search incident to arrest. Was 11 hour delay between arrest & search reasonable?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Alberta Court of King’s Bench decision R. v. Desylva, 2025…
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E93| Lengthy drive to elicit confession. Starlight tour or legitimate police procedure?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Manitoba Court of Appeal decision R. v. Pietz, 2025 MBCA 5…
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E92| A CSO search condition & reasonable suspicion. Why ask why?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses R. v. Grassing, 2025 SKCA 1 where police where asked by a…
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E91| A stop, a search & skin colour. Was racial profiling proven?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses R. v. Alexander, 2025 ONSC 57 where police tried to stop a…
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E90| Case law classic. Impaired arrest ⇉ popping trunk + knapsack search = murder evidence!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the case law classic R. v. Pearson, 2017 ONCA 389 where a…
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E89| Case law classic. Police stop ⇉ odour + drug arrest + under hood search = PPT cocaine!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the case law classic R. v. Stonefish, 2019 ONCA 914 where a…
Legal Issues In PolicingE88| Crime prevention, creativity & criticism. (Christmas) carding — ‘Ho-ho-ho’ or ‘Bah humbug’.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses 'Christmas carding', a crime prevention tactic initiated…
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E|87 An arrest, impersonation & exigent circumstances. Was hijacking arrestee’s text messaging to orchestrate drug deal reasonable?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Supreme Court of Canada decision R. v. Campbell, 2024 SCC…
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E86| A collision, an odour, a medical blood draw & an ITO. Was the reasonable belief standard met?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the New Brunswick Court of Appeal decision R. v. Gallant, 2024…
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E85| Inspecting an inventory search. Was checking behind 'compartment’s' cover colourable?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Superior Court of Justice decision R. v. Kusi, 2024…
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E84| Search incident to arrest. Just like school — show (explain) your work!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Justice decision R. v. Hoggar, 2024 ONCJ…
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E83| A gangster, a garment & a gun. Discoverability & the actual (vs. potential) exercise of police power.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Supreme Court of Canada decision R. v. Sabiston, 2024 SCC…
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E82| Co-resident consent. Was search for firearm lawful?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Court of Quebec decision R. v. Hennigar, 2024 QCCQ 4849…
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E81| Satchel safety search. Was opening bag after its removal reasonable?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Buffong, 2024 ONCA…
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E80| Case law classic. Running + recognition + reaction = fanny pack firearm.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Manitoba Court of Appeal decision R. v. McKenzie, 2022 MBCA…
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E79| Actus reus, ASD refusal & a roadside flip-flop.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Khandakar, 2024 ONCA…
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E78| By the numbers. Assaults on peace officers rise.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses Statistics Canada's most recent crime data and highlights the…
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E77| A collision, an EDR extraction & privacy. Did a warrantless vehicle seizure permit a crash data download?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Attard, 2024 ONCA…
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E76| Cops or courts, news media or national parliament. Who do Canadian’s trust most?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the OECD Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions –…
Legal Issues In PolicingE75| A stop, seizure, arrest & search plus a multi breach Charter challenge.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Cameron, 2024 ONCA…
Legal Issues In PolicingE74| A word to the wise. Read — & understand — your warrant!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Brown, 2024 ONCA 453…
Legal Issues In PolicingE73| Dissecting the data. Supreme Court pronouncements — peak or plummet?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Supreme Court's 2023 Year in Review. How do last year's…
Legal Issues In PolicingE72| Search incident to arrest. Snooze, you lose!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Williams, 2024 ONCA…
Legal Issues In PolicingE71| In God we trust; all others run on CPIC. But be careful!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Williams, 2024 ONCA…
Legal Issues In PolicingE70| Taking stock of an inventory search.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Donovan, 2024 BCCA 213…
Legal Issues In PolicingE69| Search incident to arrest. Distance, delay & the common law way!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike shares his response to the criticism levelled against a police officer…
Legal Issues In PolicingE68| Case law classic. A residence, a ruse, a reaction & reasonable grounds for arrest.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Vu, [1998] Docket…
Legal Issues In PolicingE67| Case law classic. Dialogue + ID ≠ detention.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the case law classic R. v. Poole, 2015 BCCA 464 where police —…
Legal Issues In PolicingE66| Circumstantial evidence, conjecture & common-sense. Is guilt the only reasonable conclusion?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses circumstantial evidence and alternate theories to guilt that…
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E65| Search incident to arrest. Was looking for evidence of motive — WHY someone might flee — proper?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Dautruche, 2024 ONCA…
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E64| Police, a pole camera & privacy. What gives?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Hoang, 2024 ONCA 54…
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E63| Bench behaving badly. Was out-of-court conversation out-of-bounds?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the New Brunswick Court of Appeal decision R. v. Morrison, 2024…
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E62| Birthday bash. Charter turns 42 today!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike celebrates the Charter's 42nd birthday! On April 17, 1982 -- when the…
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E61| Slicing & dicing grounds. Was breathalyzer demand reasonable?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Manitoba Court of Appeal decision R. v. Devos, 2024 MBCA 23…
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E60| Lawful arrest renders resistance unlawful.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decision R. v. Maurer, 2024…
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E59| Inventory search rationale. Proper purpose or inappropriate pretext?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the New Brunswick Court of Appeal decision R. v. Morrison, 2024…
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E58| Police pwn press, politicians & courts in Canadian confidence polling.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses recent survey results from polling about the amount of…
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E57| Dynamic entries & no-knock no-nos.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses dynamic entries and the legal standard for deviating from the…
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E56| Animal abuse. Ruling 'wrong in reason, logic & in law'.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains graphic content of animal cruelty which may shock…
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E55| RGB. The proof is in the picture-perfect prediction provided.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses R. v. Isaac, 2022 MBPC 73, where police acted on the tip of a…
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E54| Inventory update. No warrant needed to seize pistol.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision R. v. Arsenault, 2024…
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E53| In or out? Excision, exclusion & Charter confusion.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses R. v. Zacharias, 2023 SCC 30 a case involving a traffic stop…
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E52| Investigative detention, defiance & attaining compliance.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses R. v. Noor, 2022 ONCA 338 where police responded to a 911…
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E51| Case law classic. Dialogue + detention + redial = drug bust!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the case law classic R. v. Baddock, 2008 BCCA 48 where a police…
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E50| Case law classic. Anonymous tip ⇉ arrest + search = gun!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the case law classic R. v. Murphy, 2006 Docket: C42133 (ONCA)…
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E49| Case law classic. Anonymous tip ⇉ investigative detention + safety search = gun!
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the case law classic R. v. Williams, 2013 ONCA 772 where a…
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E48| Courtroom accountability. Candour, credibility & cross-examination.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Supreme Court decision R. v. Gallant, 2023 BCSC 1786…
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E47| Chief MacDonald & serious harm, i.e. IIO.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains graphic content, including violence, suicide and death…
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E46| Speeding, sobriety screening & a safety search. Did ASD procedure properly prompt protective pat-down?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Saskatchewan Court of King’s Bench decision R. v. McDonald…
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E45| Threatening the po-po. Is police perception pivotal to prosecution?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Newfoundland and Labrador Court of Appeal decision R. v…
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E44| Incorrectly identifying individual during investigation. Did it invalidate illicit drug arrest?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Whitfield, 2023 ONCA…
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E43| Police "killing" data. Missing, misleading or misinformation?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains graphic content, including violence, suicide and death…
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E42| Reason for running. Race, wrongdoing or irrelevant?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Campbell, 2023 ONCA…
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E41| Traffic stop legitimacy. Ruse or good reason?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Provincial Court decision R. v. Roberts, 2023 BCPC 118…
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E40| Reasonable grounds: W > Σ(F1 + F2 + F3 ... + Fn)
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Prince Edward Island Court of Appeal decision R. v…
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E39| Important impaired intervals ignored. Crown’s case collapses.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Newfoundland and Labrador Provincial Court decision R. v…
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E38| Reasonable Ground(s)hog Day. Predictable pattern permits principled pre-planning.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Fong, 2023 BCCA 196 where…
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E37| First responders second to none. Canadian confidence in cops crushes courts, cabinet & critics.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Statistics Canada report “Confidence in the police, the…
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E36| Right to be, right to see. Lawful presence, probable cause & plain view.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Supreme Court of Canada decision R. v. McGregor, 2023 SCC 4…
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E35| Safety search trigger: Immediate attack, imminent threat or informed risk?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Dhillon, 2023 BCCA 38…