Morgentaler was tried 3 times in Quebec for the same offence, and acquitted by a jury all 3 times, Jury Nullification of an unjust law. Each time the jury took less time to reach a not guilty verdict, less than an hour in the 3rd jury trial.

The Catholic Quebec AG found Catholic judges to re-approve the same charge for the same alleged offence. At that time there was no Morgentaler Amendment, so Judges were free to keep rolling the dice, hoping that a jury would not once again ignore judicial direction of a guilty verdict. 

There was no Canadian Equivalent of USA Double Jeopardy protection against being tried again for the same alleged crime.

At one point authorities let TV News crews into the pretrial prison Morgentaler was being held in. One reporter asked what he though of being in prison. Morgentaler replied "I've been in worse prisons" by which he meant Auschwitz & Dachau & talking his way out of the automatic death sentence when he was recaptured after escaping from Auschwitz.