What is the history of the use of admissions against interest in criminal cases in Canada?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Mousseau, 2002 ABQB 1136 (CanLII):
The modern Canadian origin of the use of admissions against interest is Streu v. The Queen, 1989 CanLII 52 (SCC), [1989] 1 S.C.R. 1521, 48 C.C.C.(3d) 321. In Streu the accused was charged with possession of stolen goods as the result of telling an undercover police officer that his friend had ripped off some car parts. He did not personally know that the goods had been stolen, just that his friend had told him that they were hot.
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