What Is a Drug Courier?
- March 31, 2023
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The use of human carriers for drug trafficking is hidden in obscurity. The evidence about drug couriers is largely drawn from official sources such as law enforcement, customs authorities and court records that collectively reveal a narrow perspective of the…
Canada’s Supreme Court Returns to the Plain View Doctrine
- March 15, 2023
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
What does the law of search and seizure say the result should be when a warrant authorizes the search of a digital device for evidence of a specified crime but the police find evidence of another crime when the warrant…
Russian Cybersecurity Expert Convicted in Hack-to-Trade Conspiracy
- February 28, 2023
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On February 14, 2023, a federal jury in Boston, Massachusetts, convicted Russian businessman, Vladislav Klyushin, of participating in an elaborate hack-to-trade conspiracy that netted millions through securities trades based on nonpublic information stolen from U.S. computer networks. Mr. Klyushin, whose…
The King of Crypto and the FTX Collapse
- February 15, 2023
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
On December 12, 2022, billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested at his apartment complex in Nassau, Bahamas, after criminal charges were filed in New York. It was a dramatic fall for the founder and CEO of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange that…
Supreme Court of Canada Strikes Down Mandatory Jail for Gun Offence
- January 31, 2023
- Clayton Rice, K.C.
The phrase illegal and cruel punishments was first used by the United Kingdom Parliament in the Bill of Rights 1689 and later adopted in the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States 1791 as cruel and unusual punishments….