B.C. court rejects convicted drug dealer's entrapment claim

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A Victoria man convicted of drug dealing was not entrapped by police, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling.

Nicholas Benjamin Michael Perri sought to have court proceedings against him stayed, arguing that the initial call he received from an officer seeking to purchase drugs constituted entrapment., B.C. Supreme Court Associate Chief Justice Heather J. Holmes rejected Perri's application.

The officer encountered Perri in the parking lot of the Travelodge at 123 Gorge Rd. She asked him if he lived there and he said he didn't. He also declined to say who he was visiting, according to the court decision. None of this information constituted "reasonable" grounds for suspecting Perri of drug trafficking, Holmes wrote in her decision, saying instead that the information had to be treated as a "bare tip."

Because of this, Gilroy's opening remark to Perri was the key to the question of whether she entrapped him. If Holmes had determined that Gilroy gave Perri the opportunity to commit a crime, her lack of reasonable suspicion would have constituted entrapment, according to the decision.

 

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