IN CANADA, THE POLICE CANNOT DISPARAGE THE DEFENCE LAWYER TO THEIR CLIENT – A recent Ontario drug trafficking case has collapsed after a judge found a police officer acted improperly by repeatedly disparaging defence counsel as a “gangster lawyer” who charged “crazy” fees. “To suggest that any lawyer is a ‘gangster lawyer’ is an attack not just on that lawyer but potentially all criminal defence lawyers — and that is simply wrong,” Justice Mark Edwards, the Senior Regional Judge for the Central East Region, wrote in his reasons for staying an alleged drug trafficker’s charges. Nor did the lawyer do anything to warrant the label “gangster lawyer,” he continued.

https://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/news/ontario/ontario-drug-case-collapses-after-police-call-defence-counsel-a-gangster-lawyer/article_a22a402e-28f5-500e-b5d8-a6b15f06399e.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=politics

AM I DETAINED, OFFICER? – “A key question before Court of Appeal Justices David Doherty, Kathryn Feldman, and Gary Trotter was whether a reasonable person in Corner’s position would have believed themselves to be detained during the interview.”

https://www.lawtimesnews.com/practice-areas/criminal/court-of-appeal-decision-gives-comprehensive-overview-of-law-around-police-detention-says-lawyer/378445?utm_source=GA&e=ZGpyZWV2ZUBiZWxsbmV0LmNh&utm_medium=20230803&utm_campaign=LTW-Newsletter-20230803&utm_content=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D&tu=60340243-7A36-40AE-831C-5923AFD1310D

COPAGANDA – You’ve seen it. You’ve heard it. You know what it is. “In the same way that we’re using cell phone cameras, storytelling, and social media to share the truth and keep ourselves safe, many police departments are also using these tools to depict themselves as kind, heroic, fun-loving community members whose niceness can outweigh the actions of a few “bad apples.” This is called copaganda.”

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-copaganda-explainer?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=syndication&mbid=synd_yahoo_rss