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Hong Kong Case Law

Flight and consciousness of guilt
  • 25 Sept 2020

    香港特別行政區 訴 梁志文

    Citation
    [2020] HKCA 775
    Court
    Court of Appeal
    Case number
    CACC277/2017

    Because defence did not object to admission of the utterance at trial and in fact relied on it to attack police credibility, and because the trial judge gave comprehensive, balanced directions explaining that the utterance could relate either to the pocket drug or the large bag and required the jury to be satisfied as to its reference and truth before using it, the admission and consideration of the utterance, and the leaving of flight/struggle and cash evidence to the jury, were proper; the jury could reasonably infer the utterance related to the large quantity and the conviction is safe.