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The court refused to admit a deceased witness’s warned statement, finding no threshold reliability under Bradshaw and rejecting its use as exculpatory evidence for Heikel.
The court ruled on admissibility of the accused’s statements and related text messages in a judge-alone murder trial, admitting some statements and excluding others.
The court partly granted a Crown voir dire application, admitting selected statements and texts as party admissions or for limited narrative purposes, while excluding the rest as more prejudicial than probative.
The court admitted a cellphone video containing the accused’s alleged admissions in a murder case, finding the statements were relevant and not unfairly prejudicial.
Supreme Court of Canada restored a conviction after finding no reversible error in admitting a child’s videotaped police statement under the principled hearsay exception.
The court held the Crown’s admissibility application on ante mortem statements could proceed on the written record, without viva voce evidence from the proposed witnesses.
The Supreme Court of Canada held that overheard, paraphrased statements by the accused were admissible as party admissions and restored the murder conviction.
Appeal dismissed in a first degree murder conviction. The court upheld admission of pre-hypnosis eyewitness statements and a Mr. Big confession and reenactment.
The court admitted evidence that a witness was told he was dealing with Mohammad Shakil Khan, but excluded the power of attorney statement and document as inadmissible hearsay.
The court admitted a deceased witness’s ante mortem statements and a related text message, largely for narrative and state-of-mind purposes, and two statements for their truth.
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