Mike Novakowski
Mike Novakowski is a 15 year member of the Abbotsford Police Department (B.C.) and presently a sergeant in the patrol division. He's spent the majority of his career in patrol, including seven years with the emergency response team and was seconded to the Justice Institute of British Columbia Police Academy as a legal studies instructor for 5 years. Mike holds a Master's degree from Royal Roads University and is an adjunct faculty member in the Criminal Justice department at the University College of the Fraser Valley, teaching Customs and Immigration Law.
Articles by Mike Novakowski
- Investigation differs from entrapment from May 2012
- Drug dealer must prove entrapment from May 2012
- Warrant plus facts justifies warrant-less arrest from May 2012
- TRIAL JUDGE NOT TO RE-TRY SEARCH WARRANT from April 2012
- ARRESTEE MUST EXPRESS DESIRE TO CONSULT LAWYER from April 2012
- Handcuffing & confinement to police wagon not an arrest from March 2012
- Court rules on Internet privacy interest from February 2012
- Not for court to second-guess police entry from January 2012
- Tip and surveillance justifies arrest from December 2011
- Consider factors supporting dog sniff together from November 2011
- Charter rights are personal from October 2011
- Reasonable suspicion requires objective facts from August / September 2011
- Random test shopping is not entrapment from June / July 2011
- Purposive approach favoured over restrictive one in cartridge magazine interpretation from May 2011
- Good faith belief must be reasonable from April 2011
- Counsel right not re-triggered by confession video from March 2011
- Only reasonable grounds needed for arrest from February 2011
- No right to lawyer during interrogation from January 2011
- Dog sniff requires reasonable suspicion from December 2010
- Search on arrest does not require urgency from November 2010
- Charter breaches net arrestee cash from October 2010
- Judge didn’t believe officer, excluded evidence from August / September 2010
- Combination of factors provide reasonable grounds from June / July 2010
- Vehicle search lawful as incidental to arrest from May 2010
- Evidence excluded because officer didn’t know law from April 2010
- Unenclosed storage yard not a “place” from March 2010
- Cold calls amounted to entrapment from February 2010
- Search reasonable to ensure officer safety from January 2010
- Investigative detention triggers right to counsel from December 2009
- Cocaine tossed because Charter rights disregarded from November 2009
- Objectively justified officer belief okay from October 2009
- Breath demand only requires reasonable belief from October 2009
- Search incident to arrest requires proper purpose from August / September 2009
- Search evidence excluded Unlawful arrest a serious Charter breach from June / July 2009
- Multiple reasons do not make stop arbitrary from May 2009
- Arrest standard doesn’t require prima facie case for conviction from April 2009