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- Contributor(s)
- Chanel Blais
- Date issued
- 2020-04; 2020-04
- Description
- The Canadian law enforcement Mr. Big operation continues to pose the risk of producing false confessions and, therefore, miscarriages of justice. Some case law protections available to prevent suspects from making incriminating statements are explicitly inapplicable to confessions elicited from Mr. Big stings. The R v Hart (2014) common law rules have adequately helped to address this by further analyzing the particular circumstances of a Mr. Big operation in the pursuit of justice. The application of the R v Hart regulations has led to the inadmissibility of several confessions and one exoneration. However, it did not exhaustively address all of the collective grievances associated with...
- Type
- thesis
- Appears in collection(s)
- Undergraduate Student Research