SUPREME COURT OF CANADA
Date: 20140122 Docket: 35411
Between:
Andy Koczab
Appellant
and
Her Majesty The Queen
Respondent
Coram: McLachlin C.J. and Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell and Moldaver JJ.
Reasons for Judgment: (para. 1)
McLachlin C.J. (Abella, Rothstein, Cromwell and Moldaver JJ. concurring)
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.