As stated in the above passage and by the majority judgment as a whole, the mere fact that false evidence was used in obtaining a confession does not in and of itself render the confession inadmissible; all of the events leading up to the confession and the confession itself must be looked at in context. Iacobucci J. referred to the oft-quoted dictum of Lamer J. in Rothman v. The Queen, 1981 CanLII 23 (SCC), [1981] 1 S.C.R. 640, that police work is not governed by the Marquess of Queensbury rules.
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