[Sheldon Pinx] said Monday he couldn't talk about the case as [Susan Wai-Ling Hanano]'s trial is still going on, but [Reeh Taylor] said Pinx raised the possibility of police abuse of process based on the timing of the Crime Stoppers tip.

Pinx said Hanano could only prove her innocence if the confidential Crime Stoppers "tip sheet" on the incident was disclosed to her. To not let her see it would violate Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms and mean the charges against should be stayed, he argued.

"The defence theory that the tip was faked is speculation," Madam Justice Lori Spivak said in her written decision. "The defence offers no factual foundation for this claim other than the improbability of a drug courier speaking on a cellphone on a bus and the time gap between the last call on the accused's cellphone and the call to Crime Stoppers."