A guilty plea entered on the advice of experienced legal representatives will not be set aside merely because the accused later regrets following that advice or asserts a defence of entrapment. An AFP controlled operation conducted under pt 1AB of the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) with proper authorities will not give rise to exclusion of evidence, particularly where the accused was an enthusiastic participant. An application to stay sentencing proceedings that seeks to relitigate issues already decided on an application to revoke guilty pleas constitutes an abuse of process.
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