Luckily this was just an Ecstasy bust and not a crime with actual victims.
METRO VANCOUVER — A B.C. judge has tossed out all evidence seized in a massive ecstasy-production investigation after finding that RCMP officers “ignored” the Charter rights of five suspects to such a degree that “one might have thought that the investigation took place before the Charter of Rights had been enacted.”
In a 34-page ruling, the judge took officers to task for hosing down two half-naked suspects outside their home in the cold, failing to bring in interpreters to read suspects their rights, failing to allow suspects to read warrants and not filing court documents in a timely manner.
“The officers in charge just did not seem to care,” B.C. provincial court Judge Paul R. Meyers wrote. “I find that the cumulative violations in this case lead to the conclusion that the officers in charge of this investigation operated throughout in ‘bad faith.'”
