R v McCann
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Judge | LORD JUSTICE ROSKILL |
| Judgment Date | 21 December 1971 |
| Neutral Citation | [1971] EWCA Crim J1221-11 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1971] EWCA Crim J1221-14 |
| Date | 21 December 1971 |
| Docket Number | No. 1843/B/71 |
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3 cases
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R v Looseley
...LR 45, R v Burnett [1973] Crim LR 748 and R v Ameer [1977] Crim LR 104. Entrapment was regarded as a mitigating factor in, for instance, R v McCann (1971) 56 Cr App R 8 In R v Sang [1980] AC 402 your Lordships' House affirmed the Court of Appeal decisions of R v McEvilly (1973) 60 Cr Ap......
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R v Sang
...which he would not otherwise commit, still more so if the police themselves take part in carrying it out." 42 Both in Birtles and in McCann the Court reduced the sentences, treating the possibility of the appellant having been incited to commit the crime charged as operating in mitigation o......
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R v Arnough
...nevertheless, to have a hope as regards reduction of sentence. The authorities to which he referred were the Birtles case (supra) and R. v McCann [1972] 56 Cr. App. R. 359. In both of these cases sentences were reduced on the ground that there was a possibility that the appellant in each ca......