WDW101Y1 Lecture Notes - Hybrid Offence, Homicide, Breathalyzer
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Arrest and detention: common law police powers of arrest, arrest powers in the criminal code, charter limits to right to detain, search incident to investigative detention, lay an information (file a charge), 504. Any one who, on reasonable grounds, believes that a person has committed. * once signed, that initiates court process hybrid] that may be tried in the province in which the justice resides. * all hybrid offences will be ran under indictable offence unless the crown has elected. Compel /order the accused to come to court (summons, arrest with or without warrant) Police can also arrest someone before an information is laid and without a warrant. We all have the right to be left alone. The police must have legal justification to interfere with liberty. Police can arrest if the officer has reasonable grounds to believe the person has or is about to commit a felony (indictable and summary offences)