POLSCI 3NN6 Lecture : March11 copy.doc
5 Apr 2014
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Laws reported the theft and found the safe abandoned in the field and in the safe were the business records of the restaurant and nothing else. Laws thought that the business records revealed that they had been defrauding the government on the basis of the. Police took the business records and gave them to revenue canada. Revenue canada charged the laws to failure to report and the taxes that were owed to revenue canada. Supreme court held that it was an illegal seizure of evidence. The police should have asked whether they should submit the record to revenue canada first. R v. arp [1998] 3 scr 339: an examiniation by agents of the state a persons. If the police didn"t seize anything from you they could charge you and then continue to search you. The actual taking away by the agents of the state as evidence. Linked to search for investigatory or evidentiary purposes.
