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Corroboration (kawad cam)
  • 3 Oct 2024

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    Citation
    05(M)-5-01/2023(C) (Mahkamah Persekutuan)
    Court
    M
    Case number
    05(M)-5-01/2023(C) (Mahkamah Persekutuan)

    The Federal Court upheld convictions because contemporaneous eyewitness evidence provided clear, repeated in-court identifications assisted by adequate lighting and corroborated by multiple witnesses; minor discrepancies were immaterial, absence of an identification parade report did not undermine substantive in-court identification, the video was inadmissible without forensic authentication, medical evidence established multiple slash wounds to the head sufficient to cause death consistent with a sharp weapon, and the cumulative evidence established common intention under s.34; therefore con…