15 Jul 2022
R v KAWHE (PROPENSITY APPLICATION) [2022] NZHC 1698
- Citation
- [2022] NZHC 1698
- Court
- High Court
The application was granted because eight prior offences over 12 years constitute a repeated, consistent pattern sufficiently similar in time, place and modus operandi to be probative of a propensity relevant to the robbery charge; gaps are explainable by imprisonment; no collusion was identified; and any risk of unfair prejudice can be managed by judicial directions and presentation (eg agreed summary).