9 Jun 2016
NAIKER V R [2016] NZCA 250
- Citation
- [2016] NZCA 250
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court held the trial judge did not err: the outside communication was an unsolicited, brief opinion from an uninvolved third party and did not create irremediable prejudice given prompt disclosure, the judge's contemporaneous handling and directions; and the judge's s122 warning was adequate in the circumstances because the jury were expressly warned to treat accomplice witnesses with caution and to take motives and incentives into account.