Judge’s directions – threats of violence

December 2024/January 2025 | Crime
Crimeline aptly described this appeal as ‘odd’. A suspended two-year prison sentence was imposed on A on conviction of a count of robbery following a car theft. He appealed the conviction, criticising the judge’s questions put to the jury. A’s counsel argued that ‘the Crown had always put their case on the basis that the …
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