What is the effect of having to participate in an in person line-up?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Nicholson, 1999 CanLII 6728 (BC SC):
It might well also have been intended as a legislative response to the law as set out in Leclair and Ross v. R. (1989), 44 C.C.C. (3d) 129 (S.C.C.), which was then that the police upon arrest and charge, had authority to hold an in person line-up but the accused was not obliged to participate.
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