Drug Traffickers Charged in Fentanyl Mortality Cases
- August 31, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The proliferation of manslaughter charges against drug traffickers has revealed the extent to which overdose mortality has been mobilized by law enforcement, prosecutors and the judiciary in the pursuit of these charges. The opioid crisis has also been used to…
Strip Searches and the Right to Counsel
- August 15, 2025
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
What is the relationship between the right to counsel and the police power to strip search incidental to arrest? That question was recently answered by the Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of an Etobicoke man convicted of importing…