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Criminal law 2024 BCSC 1636

R. v. Reed

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.

  • Party admissions
  • Prior consistent statements
  • Narrative as circumstantial evidence
  • Probative vs prejudicial balancing
  • Relevance
  • Party-admissions
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Criminal law 2014 BCSC 2628

R. v. Balbar

The court held that Heather Hamill’s out-of-court statements to a friend were not admissible for their truth because they lacked sufficient indicia of reliability.

  • Principled hearsay exception
  • Necessity and reliability
  • Admission of out-of-court statements
  • Character evidence
  • Mr. big investigation
  • Hearsay
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Criminal law 2009 BCSC 1622

R. v. Lincoln

Voir dire ruling admitting blame-shifting statements as post-offence conduct, but excluding any statement that the accused said she was going to kill someone.

  • Post-offence conduct
  • Consciousness of guilt
  • Admissibility
  • Prejudice vs probative
  • Judicial editing of statements
  • Jury instruction
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Criminal law 2003 BCSC 2041

R. v. Lee

On a voir dire, the court held the first stage of the informant-identity disclosure test was met because the affidavit provided an evidentiary basis for possible reasonable doubt.

  • Informant anonymity
  • Disclosure of informant identity
  • Stage one test
  • Reasonable doubt
  • Informant-identity
  • Criminal-disclosure
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