19 May 2015
香港特別行政區 訴 羅海富
- Citation
- 香港特別行政區 訴 羅海富
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC289/2014
The appeal succeeds because the trial judge's summing‑up contained a misdirection that invited the jury to disbelieve the applicant's allegation that police planted drugs and implicitly privileged police credibility; that misdirection, on the central issue of witness credibility, made the conviction unsafe. The complaint about denial of calling police witness 34970 fails because the record shows no formal late application and the judge's case management warnings were proper. Accordingly the conviction and sentence are quashed and a retrial ordered, with the applicant remanded (no bail pending…