What is the burden on a defendant to prove that the police officers in the case are reasonable?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Fong v British Columbia (Minister of Justice), 2019 BCSC 263 (CanLII):
The burden is on the defendant to show that the police officers in this case fall within the protections of s. 25(1) of the Code: Crampton v. Walton, 2005 ABCA 81. As the court noted in that case:
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