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Originally Posted by Jayems
Well, in this case, yeah the cops screwed up..
But 99.9% of the time, how would you feel if you were a cop, doing your best day in and day out, arresting hardend criminals, hand them over to the justice system...
Just to find out, they've been released, or some bureaurcratic BS has got them off.
And why is no one blaming the lawyer of this POS? This guy, knowing full well, exploits the legal system to get a murder off... tell me who less socially and ethically moral.
Guess thats his job.
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Some bureaucratic BS like... the Charter of Rights and Freedoms? I'd really like to see a copy of the judgment on this one before I comment any further... but I'm gonna anyway.
There's the other side to the "putting the justice system into disrepute" argument that would say the police shouldn't be able to crap the bed and trample all over someone's Charter rights and still get a conviction out of the deal. Minor infringement with minimal impact might be okay, and it always depends on the circumstances and the facts, but it shouldn't be the judge's job to get a confession into evidence when the police f'd up.
And, at least from what I've read so far (admitedly not much), the defence lawyer was only doing his job. He or she shouldn't be blamed from doing that.