Court Conviction Thrown Out: Police Dressed In Dark Clothing, Makeup Entrapped Teen At Shock Rocker's Show

A concert of the controversial rock star Marilyn Manson was singled out by Hamilton police for a "buy and bust" operation. An appeal court ruled that police entrapped a youth when they went undercover and bought drugs. The lawyer who appealed the youth's conviction said controls are needed on police stereotypes about who drug dealers are.

A three-year legal battle over the sale of $10 worth of marijuana outside a Marilyn Manson concert in Hamilton ended yesterday when the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled there was an "abuse of process" by undercover police officers.

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