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R v JESSICA MARIE HOPKINSON (2013)

PUBLISHED April 25, 2013
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[2013] EWCA Crim 795

The conviction on a special verdict of a mother charged, together with the father, with causing or allowing the death of their infant daughter under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 s.5 was unsafe and a retrial was ordered. The parents had blamed each other and some jury members had reported incidents of intimidation before the summing-up.

CA (Crim Div) (Lord Judge LCJ, Royce J, Globe J)

25/04/2013

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