20 May 1997
R. v. WONG CHONG WAI
- Citation
- R. v. WONG CHONG WAI
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC56/1997
The conviction was quashed because the judge's critical finding that the defendant's hand contamination must have occurred on the day of arrest was not supported by the admitted forensic evidence (which said nothing about duration or persistence of contamination) and that the fingerprint evidence was insufficient to make conviction inevitable; the untested agreed expert evidence rendered the conviction unsafe.