Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Entrapment defence is rarely successful, criminal lawyers say

globeandmail.com : Entrapment defence is rarely successful, criminal lawyers say: "'You can probably count on two hands the number of times it has been successful,' Toronto criminal lawyer Steven Skurka said of the defence strategy in an interview yesterday.

Created by the Supreme Court of Canada in 1988, the defence centres on showing that police actively induced a defendant into committing a crime that he otherwise wouldn't have committed."

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