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Criminal-law 2026 ONCA 251

R. v. Edwards

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from drug-trafficking convictions, holding the search warrant was properly issued on corroborated confidential-informant evidence.

  • Search-warrant
  • Reasonable-and-probable-grounds
  • Confidential-informants
  • Section-24(2)-charter-exclusions
  • Possession-for-the-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Charter-section-8
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Criminal-law 2026 ONCA 201

R. v. Clarke

The Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from firearms convictions, holding the search warrant challenge failed because the ITO and video evidence were not mischaracterized.

  • Search-warrant
  • Garofoli-application
  • Mischaracterization-of-evidence
  • Surveillance-video-evidence
  • Reasonable-grounds
  • Judicial-deference
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Criminal-law 2025 ONCA 890

R. v. Mare

Ont. C.A. dismisses an appeal from drug convictions, upholding the trial judge’s s. 24(2) ruling after a serious but unintentional s. 10(b) breach.

  • Section-8-charter-(search-and-seizure)
  • Section-10(b)-charter-(right-to-counsel)
  • Section-24(2)-charter-(exclusion-of-evidence)
  • Search-warrant
  • Strip-search
  • Police-conduct
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Constitutional-law 2025 BCSC 2066

R. v. Cancela

The court excluded evidence seized from Mr. Cancela’s residence under s. 24(2), finding the warrant affidavit materially omitted and overstated key facts.

  • Section-8-charter
  • Section-24(2)-charter
  • Search-warrant
  • Information-to-obtain
  • Exclusion-of-evidence
  • Section-24-2-charter
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2008

R. v. Cancela

The court set aside a search warrant after finding the confidential informant evidence, anonymous handler, and surveillance corroboration were insufficient on the totality of the record.

  • Search-warrant
  • Confidential-informant
  • Informant-reliability
  • Duty-of-candor
  • Surveillance-corroboration
  • Charter-s.8
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 1908

R. v. Alexander

The court upheld a search warrant for 52 Athletic Street, finding the amplified record still supported reasonable grounds and no s. 8 breach.

  • Section-8-charter
  • Search-warrant-(s.487-criminal-code)
  • Reasonable-grounds
  • Sub-facial-challenge
  • Affiant-disclosure-obligations
  • Reliability-of-informant
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 1688

R. v. Cancela

Oral ruling on a defence application for leave to cross-examine the affiant on an ITO. Leave was granted in part and denied in part, with informer privilege limits preserved.

  • Search-warrant
  • Information-to-obtain
  • Confidential-informant-privilege
  • Cross-examination-of-affiant
  • Corroboration
  • Hearsay
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 2672

R. v. Cancela

The court granted the Crown’s summary dismissal in part, striking a speculative challenge to the existence or status of informants, but let the disclosure request proceed.

  • Search-warrant
  • Confidential-informant-privilege
  • Disclosure-(stinchcombe)
  • Summary-dismissal-(manifestly-frivolous)
  • State-agent/agent-provocateur
  • Garofoli-application
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 1325

R. v. Cancela

The court upheld a drug-search warrant after excising an unsupported reference to corroboration by other police officers and finding the remaining ITO sufficient.

  • Search-warrant
  • Confidential-informants
  • Corroboration
  • Reasonable-grounds
  • Informant-reliability
  • Boilerplate-drafting
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Criminal-law 2025 BCSC 487

R. v. Taylor

The court acquitted Scott MacDonald Taylor of drug trafficking, firearm and ammunition charges, finding the Crown had not proven knowledge or control beyond a reasonable doubt.

  • Possession
  • Possession-for-the-purpose-of-trafficking
  • Constructive-possession
  • Wilful-blindness
  • Aiding-and-abetting
  • Circumstantial-evidence
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