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Criminal law 2013 BCSC 2514

R. v. Duberry

The court excluded a 9-1-1 recording, allowed a support person and closed-circuit testimony for the complainant, admitted surveillance video, and admitted the accused’s statement.

  • Voluntariness of statement
  • Right to counsel (s.10(b))
  • S.24(2) exclusion
  • Hearsay/res gestae (9-1-1 call)
  • Support person and closed-circuit testimony (s.486.1/486.2)
  • Challenge for cause and static vs rotating triers (s.640(2.1))
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Criminal law 2012 ONCA 798

R. v. Spiers

Extensive jury vetting by police at the Crown's behest using police-only databases and annotated materials, combined with the Crown's failure to disclose that material to the defence and the use of that material in exercising peremptory challenges, disrupted the statutory balance of jury selection and created the appearance of unfairness amounting to a miscarriage of justice; conviction is set aside and a new trial ordered.

  • Jury vetting
  • Disclosure obligations
  • Peremptory challenges
  • Miscarriage of justice
  • Juries act compliance
  • Fippa/mfippa privacy breaches
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Criminal law 2005 BCSC 1874

R. v. Fowler

The court dismissed a pre-trial Charter challenge to British Columbia’s jury selection process and a challenge to the array, finding no proven systemic exclusion of Aboriginal jurors.

  • Jury selection
  • Representativeness of jury
  • Systemic exclusion
  • Charter ss.7,11,15
  • Constitutional validity of jury act ss.2 and 8
  • Challenge to array s.629 criminal code
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Criminal law 2001 BCCA 555

R. v. Dhillon

British Columbia Court of Appeal upheld Gurmit Singh Dhillon’s first-degree murder conviction, rejecting delay, jury selection, DNA warrant, and charge errors.

  • Pre-charge delay and stay of proceedings
  • Challenge for cause under s.638
  • Dna warrant under s.487.05 criminal code
  • Admissibility and weight of dna evidence
  • Circumstantial evidence and jury instruction
  • Reasonable doubt and appellate review
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