LAWS 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mental Disorder, Human Frailty, Partial Defence
24 Mar 2016
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R. v. mack- appellant was charged with possession of narcotics with intent to traffic. Momotuik wasn"t a police officer, nut was a dealer who was working with the police. Momotuik began a dialogue with mack about buying drugs form him. Initially, momotuik was continuously contacting mack, with no success to buy. At a yoga retreat together, 3 months in, they did a little bit of cocaine with each other. Mack still refused to deal in drugs though. Mack even requested momotuik to leave him alone after he visited and called him many times after. During another interaction, near the end of the 6 months, momotuik showed him a gun during a conversation where veiled threats were thrown at mack. Mack felt threatened, so he did the deal out of fear and getting momotuik to leave him alone. When mack was giving a full delivery to. From the persistence, and veiled threats, the defence argued entrapment.
