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In a First, Canadian Judge Rules Police Entrapped Terrorism Suspects

HeadlineAug 01, 2016

Two Canadians were rearrested on Friday just hours after the Supreme Court of British Columbia cleared them of terrorism charges. Civil liberties groups hailed the ruling that freed John Nuttall and Amanda Korody after a judge declared federal police had entrapped them. It was the first time entrapment has been successfully used as a defense in a terrorism prosecution in North America. Civil rights groups accuse the FBI of similarly entrapping terrorism suspects in the U.S. But on Friday, Nuttal and Korody were rearrested on a peace bond, a Canadian law that allows authorities to monitor or detain people who it thinks may commit a crime.

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