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New Zealand Case Law

Detention/kidnapping
  • 4 Feb 2016

    R v WARREN [2016] NZHC 84

    Citation
    [2016] NZHC 84
    Court
    High Court

    The Court admitted the Crown's propensity evidence: convictions relating to E were admissible for charges of kidnapping/detention (charge seven) and the sexual violation charges (charges nine and ten) because the proven prior offending showed a highly probative tendency to use violence and fear to obtain sexual submission and to detain partners, and that probative value outweighed the risk of unfair prejudice; convictions relating to A and K were admissible for the detention/kidnapping charge for the same reasons.