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Schindler's lift said:Actually, EVERY JAG officer will tell you that a COs search warrant should not be used in Canada. The courts have long held that a CO does not have the required legal knowledge to issue a warrant and the only place they will be used successfully is overseas. There are also two court cases right now working their way through the system to overturn any form of CO search warrant and make it so that MPs must go to a Military Judge to get a warrant under the NDA the same way they now need to go to a Military Judge to get a DNA warrant under the NDA.
Funny, that is not the advice I received from my JAG Officer(s) at the time when I issued a warrant on two different occasions. Warrants were executed (in Canada, on a CFB) and subsequent prosecution took place without issue. Both of these instances occurred since 2008.
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