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R v JOHN OWEN WALKER (2009)

PUBLISHED July 29, 2009
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[2009] EWCA Crim 1829

A jury was not obliged to accept expert medical evidence of abnormality of mind put forward in a defence of diminished responsibility in relation to a murder charge merely because no contradictory medical evidence had been called by the prosecution. The jury was entitled to consider all the evidential material and circumstances of the killing.

CA (Crim Div) (Hallett LJ, Foskett J, Judge Beaumont Recorder of London)

29/07/2009

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