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Updated: Unlawful breath demands do not nix Crown’s evidentiary shortcuts, SCC rules

Thursday, July 06, 2017 @ 11:41 AM | By Cristin Schmitz

The Supreme Court has ruled 5-4 that in prosecutions for driving over the legal limit the Crown can rely on the Criminal Code’s s. 258(1) evidentiary shortcuts to prove blood alcohol...

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