Law360 Canada ( October 2, 2017, 8:45 AM EDT) -- Appeal by the accused, Niemi, from a conviction for first degree murder. In 2006, the victim's partially clad, mutilated body was discovered in a rural area along a decommissioned railway line. She was strangled to death with a ligature. The accused was the last individual known to have been in the company of the victim the evening prior to her body's discovery. After the police investigation stalled, they commenced an undercover operation targeting the accused. An operative befriended the accused, holding himself out as involved in a fictitious criminal organization. The operation was initially abandoned after failure to elicit a confession. One year later, the operation was renewed using new operatives. During the second operation, the accused made a series of inculpatory statements that mentioned details of the killing that had not been made public. The accused was arrested and charged with first degree murder. He was convicted by a judge sitting with a jury. The accused appealed, challenging the admission of his inculpatory statements, the renewal of a wiretap authorization in conjunction with the second operation, and the adequacy of the jury charge....