Lorsqu'un accusé allègue que la fouille incidente à son arrestation est illégale, il appartient à la poursuite de démontrer la légalité de l'arrestation

R. v. Desilva, 2022 ONCA 879

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[55]      While ordinarily a claimant has the burden to prove that there has been an unlawful arrest, where the claimant has brought an overlapping challenge against the warrantless search incident to arrest, the Crown bears the burden to show that the predicate arrest was lawful: R. v. Gerson-Foster, 2019 ONCA 405, 437 C.R.R. (2d) 193, at para. 75. This is to avoid conflicting burdens on the same issue because warrantless searches are presumptively unlawful and the Crown ordinarily bears the burden to show their lawfulness: R. v. Fearon, 2014 SCC 77, [2014] 3 S.C.R. 621, at para. 87.