Is there any case law where the lead investigating officer lost or lost intelligence reports?
Saskatchewan, Canada
The following excerpt is from R v Santos, 2014 SKQB 5 (CanLII):
In R v. Anderson, 2013 SKCA 92, 300 C.C.C. (3d) 296 the accused was convicted of drug trafficking and criminal organization offences. The convictions were the result of a lengthy and resource-intensive police operation. The accused appealed on numerous grounds. One of these grounds included the fact that the lead investigating officer had lost 5 of 7 notebooks and other intelligence reports after being transferred from Saskatchewan to British Columbia. (para. 28)
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