LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Assault, Young Offenders Act, Indictable Offence
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Arrest, police questioning and pre-trial detention: searches and investigations by school officials. ), leading case was r. v. m. (m. r. ) (1998, scc): http://scc. lexum. umontreal. ca/en/1998/1998rcs3-393/1998rcs3-393. html. Acquitted at trial of possession of marijuana; crown appealed to nsca; acquittal set aside, new trial ordered; appeals to scc. Junior high school vice-principal was given reasonably reliable information from students that , a. 13-year-old student, was intending to sell drugs at a school function on school property. In office, vp asked if he was in possession of drugs; advised he was going to search them. Vp asked to come to his office. A plain-clothes rcmp officer was present but said nothing while the vp spoke to and searched . The vp seized a plastic bag of marijuana, gave it to the rcmp officer, who arrested . Trial judge found that the vp was acting as an agent of the police, and that he conducted an unlawful search; the evidence was excluded.
