The ReeveLaw Blog

Here’s all the facts and evidence you probably ever need to know about marijuana in 24 easy to understand maps and charts.

24 maps and charts that explain marijuana – Vox.

The trouble with criminal speech.

I often hear clients express the concern that if they go to trial the Judge will just believe the police officer and disbelieve them.  Simply put, that is not necessarily true. In one case I defended a client charged with running an ecstasy lab where the York Regional police officer fabricated 2 notebooks covering a year of investigation. The dates of his notes kept changing years as he kept confusing the year of the event with the year he was writing the notes. I venture to say with some degree of confidence that virtually every drug case in York Region has a (section 8) legality of search issue. Those cases usually don’t go to trial as a good defence lawyer will help the prosecutor and/or pre-trial Judge recognize the illegal nature of how police obtained the evidence.  If you’re charged with a criminal offence don’t give up hope – talk to an experienced criminal defence lawyer.  We can help.

Police perjury is rampant. “The Star found 28 cases since 2005 that involved a total of 34 Toronto officers determined by judges to have misled the court.” Police policy seems to be to just blow it off. “Toronto police spokesperson Mark Pugash equated the language used by judges in the cases reviewed by the Star to “throwaway comments unsupported by evidence.” ” Carry on.

Police who lie: How officers thwart justice with false testimony | Toronto Star.

There are NO criminal consequences for police officers who fabricate evidence and commit the criminal offence of perjury during criminal trials.  They are law ENFORCEMENT officers but seem to have no trouble making up stuff, lying and perverting the course of justice … and nobody seems to care.  Carry on.

Toronto police officer rebuked by judge for fabricating evidence | Toronto Star.

My advice is always the same – NEVER EVER give a statement to the police or submit to a polygraph test.  Police train in interrogation techniques that include lying, coercion, persuasion and minimization which induce false confessions. A study has shown that whenever a confession was involved, every juror voted guilty, regardless of alibis and fingerprint evidence. We need judicial rules “requiring the videotaping of all interrogations, setting time limits on interviews, and making it illegal to lie to a suspect.”

The Interview – The New Yorker.

Pet peeve: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.”  I don’t think this means what you’ve always thought it means.

‘Kill the Lawyers,’ A Line Misinterpreted – New York Times.

Twisted authoritarian mentality: keeping your private personal confidential information private allows you to hold yourself beyond the law. It’s like police requiring you to keep the front door of your house unlocked and open in case they want to come in and search it without a warrant.  It’s one good reason to consider Apple or Android for your next phone.

FBI Director James Comey: Apple, Android Phones’ Security Measures Risk Lives.

When you define a human being as we do in s. 223 of our criminal code as a child who has “completely proceeded, in a living state, from the body of its mother”, it has certain consequences. One such result is that “any woman can destroy her near-term or term fetus and can induce an abortion accordingly and do what she will with the remains without risking any criminal sanctions.”

Former GTA stripper acquitted of concealing dead baby’s body | Toronto Star.

What it takes to get shot by police in the States: 1 being black 2 shopping at Walmart.

Cops Escape Charges For Killing Walmart Shopper Holding A BB Gun Sold At The Store | ThinkProgress.