A judge has tossed a Toronto fentanyl case after finding police had no reasonable grounds to make an arrest, fabricated notes to suggest otherwise and then gave false testimony in court.
“To detain and arrest a person, and proceed to a warrantless search and seizure, in the clear absence of the necessary grounds to do so … is a marked deviation from the rule of law,” Ontario Court Justice Christine Mainville wrote in a 20-page decision, released last week.