No Charter breach when police warrantlessly searched text messages in ‘exigent circumstances’: SCC

By Cristin Schmitz ( December 6, 2024, 5:50 PM EST) -- The Supreme Court of Canada has dismissed 6-3 an Ontario man’s appeal of his drug trafficking convictions, holding that his Charter rights were not breached because “exigent circumstances” justified police, without a warrant, using a cellphone they seized from a drug dealer to impersonate that dealer and continue his texting with the accused to arrange what police suspected to be a purchase of fentanyl-laced heroin....