E59| Inventory search rationale. Proper purpose or inappropriate pretext‪?‬ Legal Issues In Policing

In this episode, Mike discusses the New Brunswick Court of Appeal decision R. v. Morrison, 2024 NBCA 35 where police conducted an inventory search of a vehicle they towed from a bar parking lot. Did a request to be on the look out for the vehicle, having earlier been involved in a high-speed chase with the RCMP, taint the inventory search ? Or could police have other investigative reasons in mind when inventorying the vehicle and its contents. Did the police go too far in searching a book bag found on the front seat or a soft case found under it? And did the discovery of any drugs taint the issuance of a search warrant and render the search unreasonable under s. 8 of the Charter? 


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