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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
E34| Reasonable grounds: Missing the forest for the trees?
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…
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E33| Happy birthday! Plus a s. 10(b) Charter fun fact.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike celebrates a birthday! It was 41 years ago today -- on April 17, 1982 --…
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E32| Is common sense common? Maybe not so much.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal decision R. v. Macfie, 2023…
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E31| Investigative detention. Familiar facts, frantic flight & figuring it out.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Wilkinson, 2023 BCCA 3…
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E30| R.I.P. my brothers.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. Today, March 16, 2023, we lost two superheroes, 35-year-old Constable Travis Jordan (8.5 years…
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E29| Keeping calm “contemporaneously” with courtroom cross examination.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses a trial tactic apparently used by some defence lawyers to make…
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E28| Hardened criminal's Charter challenge chokes in court.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Justice decision R. v. Maftoon, (2021 ONCJ…
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E27| Successive search warrant submissions. Subversive or sensible?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Bond, 2021 ONCA 730…
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E26| House arrest or home invasion? Fundamentals, frustration & Feeney.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision R. v. Mitchell, 2022…
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E25| Flare guns, firearms & a "Hail Mary" defence.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Supreme Court decision R. v. Morris, 2023 BCSC 106 where…
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E24| Canadian Beaver battle. What makes reasonable grounds reasonable?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Supreme Court of Canada decision R. v. Beaver, 2022 SCC 54…
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E23| IIO recommendation rejected. Crown clears cop.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike looks at the Independent Investigation Office's (IIO's) response to the…
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E22| The Crown is not your lawyer.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike looks at Klassen v. British Columbia (Minister of Public Safety and…
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E21| Can police inventory a passenger's personal belongings?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike looks at R. v. Myers, 2022 NSCA 69, another inventory search case, this…
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E20| Traffic stop snow job snubbed.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike uses the case of R. v. Robertson, 2022 ONSC 5795 to discuss traffic…
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E19| Surrey Police Service: "Flicking on-and-off a light switch?"
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike provides an outside look at Surrey's transition from the RCMP to the…
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E18| Detain. Or detain not. There is no try.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses a question he was asked recently and uses the Saskatchewan…
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E17| Searching vehicle after arrest on outstanding warrant. Fair or foul?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Francis, 2022 ONCA…
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E16| Investigative Detention: Was Leaning In, Lighting Up & Looking About Vehicle Justified?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Ahmed, 2022 ONCA 640…
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E15| Police expected to school judge on the law?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Chen, 2022 BCCA 296 where…
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E14| Pedal pusher prompts pat-down plus protective pocket probe.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Supreme Court decision R. v. Castle, 2022 BCSC 1292…
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E13| Listener Question: Cheating, child porn & the Charter.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike responds to a listener's question about a wife's surreptitious "search"…
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E12| Repeat offender, repeat contender. CI's & the 3 C's.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Williams, 2022 ONCA…
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E11| Listener Question: Penile swabs & reasonable cause.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike responds to a listener's question about the validity of a penile swab…
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E10| R-E-S-P-E-C-T! Cops top judges, lawyers & lawmakers.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike highlights recent public opinion polls amongst Canadians and how they…
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E9| Impaired paddling. Is a canoe a vessel?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision R. v. Sillars, 2022 ONCA…
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E8| To arrest or not arrest? That is the question.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Quebec Court of Appeal decision R. v. Leventis, 2022 QCCA…
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E7| Boxers, briefs & beltlines. What is a 'strip search'?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the BC Court of Appeal decision R. v. Choi, 2021 BCCA 410 where…
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E6| Making a mistake. Is it fatal to your reasonable grounds?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Supreme Court of Canada decision R. v. Tim, 2022 SCC 12. In…
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E5| Excessive force. What's an appropriate remedy?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Alberta Court of Appeal decision R. v. Bidlock-Hawkins…
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E4| 'Safe' cracking incident to arrest. Is it reasonable?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Ontario Court of Appeal decision, R. v. Smith, 2022 ONCA…
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E3| Inventory searches. Things that make you go hmmm?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Nova Scotia Supreme Court decision R. v. Arsenault, 2022…
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E2| Butt-crack cocaine? Justifying a strip search.
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. In this episode, Mike discusses the Supreme Court of Canada reasoning in R. v. Ali, 2022 SCC 1…
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E1| Are you case law curious?
Provide your feedback here. Anonymously send me a text message. Are you case law curious? If you're a cop, you should be. In this episode Mike explains the…