I'm defending a client for Law class, what can I say to win?

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I live in Canada so I'm using the Canadian Charter of Rights and freedoms to defend this case and this is the details

A Mountie drug investigator in Nova Scotia recognized a car parked on the shoulder of a highway as belonging to the accused. After checking the car and finding it empty, the officer was standing next to the vehicle when the accused climbed up from the roadside ditch with his hand inside his jacket. When the Mountie asked him what he had in his jacket, the accused opened it and showed he was carrying a pint of beer.
The Mounties then asked the accused if he's carrying any other liquor or drugs. The accused says no. The Mountie then reaches into the left hand pocket of the accused's jacket and finds a bag containing three marijuana cigarettes.
Was this search and seizure reasonable? Should the evidence of finding the marijuana be admitted?



so what can I say from the charter that will protect my client to help me in winning this case?
 
It's a sad day for Dudley Dooright.

Are there no missing or exploited children in Canada? Have all of the terrorists within your boarders been tracked down and caught? Is nobody plotting a robbery or murder on this day?

How can the government justify spending one minute of the RCMP's time; One page on a courthouse docket; One inch of jail cell space; or one dime of taxpayer money, to hassle some underachiever over his possesion of a harmless weed that is so ubiquitous that it actually grows freely in nature, right here on god's green earth?

Wouldn't the resources be better applied by just having he Mountie in question just sit, by himself, in a quiet room and THINK about how to catch a pedophile or two?

OF COURSE the search is illegal. The ONLY way to justify it, is by perpetuating the lie that marijuana is Soooooooo dangerous, that we must be a little flexible on the issue of civil rights, in order to protect society from it.

Is anyone saying that? If so, shame. Shame on them.

--Ray
 
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