SUPREME
COURT OF CANADA
Between:
Andy
Koczab
Appellant
and
Her
Majesty The Queen
Respondent
Coram: McLachlin C.J. and Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell and
Moldaver JJ.
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Reasons for
Judgment:
(para. 1)
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McLachlin C.J. (Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell and
Moldaver JJ. concurring)
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R. v. Koczab, 2014 SCC 9, [2014] 1 S.C.R. 138
Andy Koczab Appellant
v.
Her Majesty The Queen Respondent
Indexed as: R. v. Koczab
2014 SCC 9
File No.: 35411.
2014: January 22.
Present: McLachlin C.J. and Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell and
Moldaver JJ.
on appeal from the court of appeal for
manitoba
Constitutional
law — Charter of rights — Right to be informed of offence charged — Right to counsel — Psychological detention — Trial judge did not err in finding accused
psychologically detained and s. 10 Charter rights breached — Breach warranted that evidence be excluded
— Canadian Charter of
Rights and Freedoms, ss. 10 , 24(2) .
APPEAL
from a judgment of the Manitoba Court of Appeal (Chartier C.J.M. and Beard and
Monnin JJ.A.), 2013 MBCA 43, 294 Man. R. (2d) 24, 581 W.A.C. 24, [2013] 11
W.W.R. 260, [2013] M.J. No. 160 (QL), 2013 CarswellMan 251, setting aside an
acquittal entered by Schulman J., 2011 MBQB 70, 264 Man. R. (2d) 53, 233 C.R.R.
(2d) 193, [2011] M.J. No. 106 (QL), 2011 CarswellMan 140, and ordering a new
trial. Appeal allowed.
Sheldon E. Pinx, Q.C., and Katherine E. Smith, for the appellant.
Kevin R. Wilson and Janna Hyman, for the respondent.
The
judgment of the Court was delivered orally by
[1] The Chief Justice — The appeal is allowed for the reasons of Monnin J.A., dissenting in
the Court of Appeal.
Judgment
accordingly.
Solicitors
for the appellant: Pinx & Co., Winnipeg.
Solicitor
for the respondent: Public Prosecution Service of Canada, Toronto and
Winnipeg.
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