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Malcolm Rowe

Malcolm Rowe

Canadian justice

May 15, 2026

2:46
The police were obliged-
2:48
What were they supposed to have told the judge, having regard to the, the, the, the terms of the, of the warrant in terms of when we get this guy who's known, I mean, we're, we're not convicting the guy, but he's, he's, he's understood by the police to be involved in, uh, selling drugs.
3:10
And anyway, if you're, if you're involved in criminal activity, guess what? You got a bunch of phones, right? Because you wanna hide what you're up to.
3:20
And so they, they kind of say, "Well, there's a bunch of phones here, so we, we, we, we, we take the phones, we hold them, we sort out which one is the phone we're, we're looking for, has the information we're looking for." I mean, didn't they kind of tell the, the judge that something like that and, and isn't that sort of what happened?
6:28
And so if they seize, uh, two ph-- they call the number, uh, two phones ring, three phones ring, well, now they are certainly in a position where they have to, um, analyze the devices to see which one is the phone they want or maybe all phones are the phones that they want, and they can apply for further judicial authorization to do that.
6:46
But isn't, isn't it prudent for the police to say, "We don't know which one.
6:50
We're just gonna take them all and sort it out later"? Because, because that's the sensible, practical thing to do.
6:59
The police don't cause a problem by trying to get inside the device a-at the roadside and maybe inadvertently, uh, triggering some other Section eight problem, which everybody would be all excited about, right? So you just, "Okay, we're gonna bag them.

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