The judge’s warning to the jury about its dangers is needed, when the jury were being asked to consider uncorroborated visual identification evidence, unless, and exceptionally, the evidence is of such good quality as to stand without a warning. In this case though, although the direction was defective, the two eye witnesses had known the defendant for several years.
Citations:
Ind Summary 29-Aug-1994, Gazette 12-Oct-1994, Times 07-Jul-1994, [1994] 1 WLR 1437
Cited by:
Cited – Bertrand Roberts and Roland Roberts v The State PC 15-Jan-2003
PC (Trinidad and Tobago) The appellants had been convicted of murder and their capital sentences commuted. They now sought to challenge the convictions as to the admission of and directions given on the . .
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Evidence, Criminal Practice, Commonwealth
Updated: 08 April 2022; Ref: scu.80681