What are the leading cases on the air of reality test?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Gray, 2013 ABQB 32 (CanLII):
The leading case on the air of reality test is R v. Cinous. It states that the air of reality test remains: Whether there is evidence upon which a properly instructed jury acting reasonably could acquit if it believed the evidence to be true.
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