12 Oct 2022
MILOSEVIC v R [2022] NZCA 479
- Citation
- [2022] NZCA 479
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court held the money laundering convictions were unsafe and quashed them because of the late introduction and formulation of representative money laundering charges, the manner in which expert accounting evidence was presented and the judge's directions which failed to adequately warn the jury that many impugned transactions pre-dated the charged drug offending (and therefore required proof of earlier uncharged offending); other convictions for drug offending were upheld because, taken overall, trial conduct and judicial interventions did not render those trials unfair; sentences for Fran…