The defendant appealed against an order at a preparatory hearing that evidence of his previous convictions and the manner of his actions should be admissible at his trial for two murders. A ruling had been given which the defendant said would restrict his right to deny those offences.
Held: The defendant’s bare assertion
Citations:
[2010] EWCA Crim 2971, (2011) 175 JP 25, [2011] 1 WLR 1942, [2011] 1 Cr App R 17
Links:
Statutes:
Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 74(3)
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Lunkulu and Others v Regina CACD 7-Aug-2015
Request for leave to appeal out of time against convictions for murder and against sentence. Much evidence had been circumstantial, and the defendants alleged bias in the summing up, and complained of the admission of bad character evidence.
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Criminal Evidence
Updated: 31 August 2022; Ref: scu.427385