What is the impact of a warning or warning on the admissibility of a statement made by an accused to a person in authority?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v Goulding, 2017 ONSC 4335 (CanLII):
The absence of a warning is an important factor but may not be determinative of the admissibility of a statement made by an accused to a person in authority. (R .v. Singh at para. 31 and Boudreau v. The King, 1949 CanLII 26 (SCC), [1949] S.C.R. 262, 94 C.C.C. 1, [1949] 3 D.L.R. 81 at p. 267).
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