Is there an exception to the general exclusionary rule that an accused must only answer the specific charge contained in the indictment?
Canada (Federal), Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Handy, [2002] 2 SCR 908, 2002 SCC 56 (CanLII):
43 As set out in the dissenting reasons of Dickson J., concurred in by Laskin C.J., in Leblanc v. The Queen, 1975 CanLII 190 (SCC), [1977] 1 S.C.R. 339, at p. 345: “There is, however, a limited but legitimate area of exception to the general exclusionary rule that the accused has only to answer the specific charge contained in the indictment.”
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