Practice and Procedure

R v (1) JORDAN WILLIAMS (2) LENNIE LEON JOHN (3) COLIN AGHATISE (2012)

PUBLISHED December 21, 2012
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[2012] EWCA Crim 2751

A young offender's conviction for murder was unsafe where a judge had admitted evidence at trial of a knife found on the youth when arrested four months after the incident. The finding was too remote from the incident and bore no legitimate purpose in the case against him.

CA (Crim Div) (McCombe LJ, Cranston J, Sir David Calvert Smith)

21/12/2012

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