N.B. Appeal Court rebukes RCMP officer for conduct in impaired driving case
Posted: Jan 23, 2021 7:00 AM AT | Last Updated: January 23 New Brunswick's Court of Appeal upheld the acquittal of a man charged with impaired driving based on violations of his Charter right to consult a lawyer after his arrest in 2017. (CBC) A New Brunswick RCMP officer committed serious, charter-infringing misconduct by denying a man arrested for impaired driving access to a lawyer, a court decision states. The case involved Pier-Paul Landry, who was convicted of impaired driving, but was initially denied access to a lawyer by the investigating officer on the 2017 case. Landry was acquit...
Source: cbc.ca