Decision highlights need for police to know rules when it comes to strip searches: professor
Monday, September 25, 2017 @ 3:16 PM | By Terry Davidson
A ruling by a Toronto judge is highlighting problems caused when police officers strip search suspects without following protocols.
Kent Roach, University of TorontoThe Sept. 11 decision in R. v. MacPherson 2017 ONCJ 615 — and the judge's criticism of the Toronto Police Service officers' actions — came from Justice Sheila Ray, after she threw out evidence at a drug trafficking trial. Justice Ray said the evidence, a bag of crack cocaine, was found only after the officers conducted the problematic strip search.
University of Toronto law...
Kent Roach, University of TorontoThe Sept. 11 decision in R. v. MacPherson 2017 ONCJ 615 — and the judge's criticism of the Toronto Police Service officers' actions — came from Justice Sheila Ray, after she threw out evidence at a drug trafficking trial. Justice Ray said the evidence, a bag of crack cocaine, was found only after the officers conducted the problematic strip search.
University of Toronto law...
