"The development is a new setback for a once-promising prosecution, but allows federal authorities to sidestep questions about police surveillance gear."
"Police [...] had intercepted more than a million supposedly secure electronic messages sent on BlackBerrys."
"Prosecutors offered them relatively light sentences on murder-conspiracy charges. The bargain was struck last March after their criminal lawyers raised a litany of questions about how the RCMP got inside the suspects’ smartphones."
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 10.6 ms ] thread"Police [...] had intercepted more than a million supposedly secure electronic messages sent on BlackBerrys."
"Prosecutors offered them relatively light sentences on murder-conspiracy charges. The bargain was struck last March after their criminal lawyers raised a litany of questions about how the RCMP got inside the suspects’ smartphones."