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"No right to counsel during interrogation: top court."

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"No right to counsel during interrogation: top court." In today's edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail, Kirk Makin has an article that begins, "Police are winning the unceasing war over the rights of suspected criminals on a major battleground -- the Supreme Court of Canada. In a ruling full of friction between a bare majority of judges wanting to avoid hampering officers in their work and a minority fighting for the rights of the accused, the court said on Friday that while suspects have a right to consult a lawyer and to be informed of that right, they don't have a right to legal counsel while they are being interrogated." The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "The right to counsel, diminished."

The Vancouver Sun reports today that "Supreme Court restricts right to have a lawyer during police questioning."

The Vernon Morning Star reports that "Court denies manslaughter appeal."

The Toronto Sun contains an article headlined "No right to 'lawyer up', Supreme Court rules."

The Canadian Press has a report headlined "No right to lawyer during questioning, says top court."

And Postmedia News has a report headlined "No right to lawyer during police interrogation: Supreme Court."

You can access yesterday's 5-4 ruling of the Supreme Court of Canada at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on October 09, 2010 (boomark / email).