Steven Lindsay and Raymond Bonner were the first people convicted under Parliament's 2002 anti-gang law.

Steven Lindsay and Raymond Bonner were the first people convicted under Parliament's 2002 anti-gang law. The Ontario Court of Appeal last year dismissed the challenge, upholding the convictions for committing extortion "in association with" a criminal organization.The former bikers had sought leave to appeal that decision to the Supreme Court, but the country's top court today dismissed that application.At the pair's trial in Barrie, Ont., in 2005 the Superior Court judge declared the Hells Angels a criminal organization for the first time in Canada.
The anti-gang legislation the men were challenging allows courts to impose up to 14 additional years in prison to anyone who commits a serious crime "for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with a criminal organization."