The appellant was convicted of drug trafficking after persistently refusing the approaches of a police informer over six months.
He eventually sold drugs to the informer due to persistent requests, threats, and a large monetary inducement.
The Supreme Court of Canada allowed the appeal and entered a stay of proceedings, holding that entrapment is not a substantive defence but an aspect of abuse of process to be decided by the trial judge.
The Court established an objective test for entrapment, finding that the police conduct in this case went beyond merely providing an opportunity and amounted to an abuse of process.
