What is the state’s interest in preventing crime?
Manitoba, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Martinson, 2015 MBQB 105 (CanLII):
And as Dickson J. held in Hunter v. Southam Inc., 1984 CanLII 33 (SCC), [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145 at 167, “The state’s interest in detecting and preventing crime begins to prevail over the individual’s interest in being left alone at the point where credibly-based probability replaces suspicion.”
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