Romaniuk's
Search Warrants Considered

Agents of the State

1. Are Agents of the State
2. Not Agents of the State
3. Rule of Thumb

Banks

Bankrupts

Bawdy Houses

Breath Samples

Cell Phones

Computers

Civil Searches Index

1. Common Errors
2. Court Files - Searches Of
3. Definition
4. Disclosure
5. Discovery Materials - Searches For
6. Inital Considerations
7. Mandatory Conditions

Drug Searches

1. Exceptions
2. General
3. Marijuana grow operations
   1. Administrative warrants
   2. Corporate Employees
   3. Exceptions
   4. General
   5. Municipal inspections
   6. Regulatory Inspections
   7. Utility Company Records
   8. Utility Company Records - Exception
4. Smell evidence - dogs
   1. Basics
   2. Cases following Kang-Brown
   3. Cases preceding Kang-Brown and in accordance
   4. Cases preceding Kang-Brown and not in accordance
5. Smell evidence: humans
   1. Smell evidence: humans - basics
   2. Smell evidence: humans - exigent circumstances
   3. Smell evidence: humans - improper uses of
   4. Smell evidence: humans - searches incidental to lawful arrest
6. Use of: profiling criteria
   1. By race
   2. Jetways criteria - Use Of
   3. Pipeline criteria - Use Of
7. Technologies - Use of
   1. Forward Looking Infrared Radar (FLIR)
   2. Load Profile Devices
   3. Telephones - Answering Ringing
   4. X-ray Devices
8. Telephone Records

Dynamic (No Knock) Entries

Electronic Devices

1. Cell Phones
2. Computers

Firearms Index

1. Basics
2. ss. 117.02 and 117.04 CC
3. s. 102 Firearms Act
4. Exigent Circumstances
5. Night Searches for Firearms

Foreign Government Applications

Gaming Houses

Garbage

General Warrants

Informers (Use of)

1. Basic requirements
2. Crime Stoppers' tips
3. Currency of an informer's information
4. Debot considerations
5. Duty to protect informers' identities
6. 'Garofoli' sources
   1. Acceptable 'Garofoli' sources
   2. Unacceptable 'Garofoli' sources
7. Police Officers as Confidential Informants
8. Reliable sources - use and abuse of the term
9. Role of informers
10. Tear Away Warrants
11. Verification of an informer's information
    1. Duty to verify
    2. Insufficient verification
    3. Rules of Thumb
    4. Sufficient verification
       1. Warrantless Searches
       2. With a Search Warrant in Hand
12. Weighing informers' tips

Judge Shopping

Mail

Motor Vehicles

1. Basics
2. Charter Applies
3. Charter Exceptions
4. Check Stops
5. Inventory Searches
6. Ownership Issues
7. Pretextual Searches
8. Provincial Statues
9. Searches Incidental to Lawful Arrest
10. Unacceptable Searches Incidental to Arrest

No Knock (Dynamic) Entries

1. Appellate Court Commentary
2. Applicants Do Not Need Permission To
3. Basics
4. Definition
5. History
6. Invalid Reasons for Use
7. Other Considerations
8. Valid Reasons for Use

Pornography Index

1. Basics
2. Child Pornography
   1. Basics
   2. Case Law Interpretations
   3. Not Pornographic
   4. Pornographic
3. Definition
4. Other
5. Rule of Thumb

Privileged Materials Index

1. First Nations
2. Hospitals
   1. Blood Samples
   2. Blood Samples - Exceptions
   3. Blood Toxicology - Records
   4. Bodily Fluids
   5. Psychiatric Records
   6. Statements made by Medical Personnel
   7. Urine / Stool Samples
3. Law Offices
   1. Basics
   2. Case Law
   3. Not Privileged
   4. Privileged
4. Parliamentary
5. Press Offices
   1. Basics
   2. Related Case Law
6. Religious Organizations

Schools

1. Basics
2. Dogs - Use of
3. General
4. Reasonably Suspicious

Sealing Orders

1. Acceptable bans
2. Appeals
3. Applicable Sections of the Criminal Code
4. Apply to
5. Considerations
6. Either Way
7. Exceptions
8. Extensions
9. Jurisdiction
10. Press Considerations
11. Resealing
12. Rules of Thumb
13. Youths
14. Unacceptable bans

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