Sentences with phrase «defined search power»
This is in stark contrast with the general law of search, established in cases such as R. v. Mann, which prevents peace officers from using a specific, narrowly defined search power to engage in a «fishing expedition» for unrelated incriminating evidence.
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Among the ideas excluded from any final budget deal: creation of a database that the public could search for how much every recipient of economic development spending got and how many jobs they created; end the ability by limited liability companies to skirt campaign donation limits; give back certain contract pre-approval powers to the state Comptroller, the state's fiscal watchdog; strengthen the state's criminal laws to better define bribery of public officials; and create an independent watchdog agency to police ethics issues in Albany.
Rouleau J.A. defined the police power exercised by Sgt. Charlebois as «the power of individual police officers to target demonstrators and, where no crime is being investigated or believed to be in progress, but with the intention of preventing crime, to require that they submit to a search if they wish to proceed on foot down a public street».
The impact on police when assessing how to define the search and seizure powers related to electronic communications is frequently invoked by the Crown in these cases.