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Re:Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West? by gruez on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:04PM (#17248236)
>i had no idea that in Canada of all places "cops can use evidence even if seized illegally."

according to [1], it's not a blanket yes or no. it's a balance of whichever choice would make the justice system look worse. ie. turning someone's home up-side down to find 1g of weed vs a serial murderer getting away with murder because the judge didn't fill out the paperwork properly.

[1] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_Criminal_Procedure_an...

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Re:Does China’s digital police state have echoes in the West? by rikkus on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @02:10PM (#17249512)
That's quite a cynical way of explaining this. Is it possible to interpret this as it being allowed to use evidence seized illegally if, on balance, justice would be better served?
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