OTTAWA - If only she'd had a Polaroid camera.
A southern Ontario woman suing Black's Photography over pictures of her marijuana plants will have to produce the photos in court.
Agnieska Wojtanowska says Black's violated her Charter rights back in 2001 when a worker handed the photos over to police.
Drug charges were later dropped when the pictures were excluded as evidence because they were obtained without a search warrant.
The woman then sued Black's and the police for improper seizure of the photos. But she didn't want to produce them in a Kitchener, Ont. courtroom, citing privacy concerns.
She appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada after an Ontario Superior Court judge ordered her to disclose the pictures as key evidence.
The high court gave no reasons Thursday for refusing to hear the case, as is usual for applications for leave to appeal. It generally accepts cases deemed to be of national importance or on specific disputes in the law.
The high court's dismissal essentially means the lower-court judge's ruling stands, and the photos must be shown.
