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Entrapment and the Right to a Fair Trial

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

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State v. Hassen and Another [1998] 1 LRC 49 (Supreme Court of Soutfi Transvaal Provincial Division)

The appellants had been apprehended as a result of a police trap, and were charged and convicted of contravening section 20 of the Diamonds Act, 1986. They appealed on die grounds that entrapment and the use of evidence obtained as a result of a police trap contravened their right to a fair trial provided by section 25(3) of the Constitution.

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Recent Developments
Information
Journal of African Law , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , Spring 1999 , pp. 112
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1999

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