POLSCI 3NN6 Lecture Notes - Mellenthin
5 Apr 2014
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Areas of privacy dwelling house: you will have a high expectation of privacy. Police will really have to exert clear cut circumstances in order to get away with a warrantless search. R v. feeney [1997] 2 scr 13 feeney was suspected of murder. He was drinking with his friend when they got in a fight and hit him with an iron bar. He took his friends cigarettes, shoes, and car keys. Feeney was not able to drive the car and crashed in it a ditch. He walked home to his trailor that was no located on his own premisis but on his sisters land. He went to bed still wearing blood soaked clothes. The police traced him from the scene and entered into his home. The arrested him and they took it into evidence. The court found that the entry and seizure were unlawful that the police needed a warrant to obtain the evidence.
