20 Jul 2015
JONES v R CA362/2014 [2015] NZCA 312
- Citation
- [2015] NZCA 312
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court held there was no miscarriage of justice: severance was not required given strategic choices by defence and adequate directions from the judge; no compulsory s122 warning was required where defence did not seek it and the judge considered s122; co-accused statements remained inadmissible against others and their use did not render verdicts unsafe; fresh evidence was inherently unreliable and would not affect verdict safety; the District Court utterance was admissible and not prejudicial given similar material; alleged prosecutorial misconduct and misdirections did not produce real r…