The accused appealed after the admission of bad character evidence in respect of allegations for which he had not faced prosecution. Moses LJ said that a jury would need ‘to consider with as much detail and concentration all the facts’ in relation to the three allegations as they would in relation to the offences of which the appellant was charged.
Judges:
Moses LJ
Citations:
[2008] EWCA Crim 1544, [2009] 1 Cr App R 10
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Approved – O’Dowd v Regina CACD 12-May-2009
The defendant appealed against his conviction for serious sexual offences. The trial was very lengthy after the prosecution introduced bad character evidence from other allegations from some 17 years or more before. . .
Cited – Mitchell, Regina v SC 19-Oct-2016
Appeal against conviction for murder. Evidence was agreed with her representatives as to previous acts using knives, but was presented despite withdrawal by her of her consent. The prosecution now appealed against the quashing of the conviction.
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Crime
Updated: 17 June 2022; Ref: scu.343015