16 Oct 2023
B (CA589/2022) v R [2023] NZCA 499
- Citation
- [2023] NZCA 499
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court dismissed the appeals: the summing up taken as a whole fairly and accurately presented the confined admission and emphatic denials so no real risk of miscarriage of justice arose; the trial judge correctly directed the jury on the neutral, educative purpose of counter-intuitive expert evidence; the 15% combined sentencing discount for personal and cultural background was within acceptable range given the seriousness and repeated nature of the sexual offending and the appellant's capacity for self-control; permanent suppression of the appellant's name, address and occupation was orde…
- Appeal against conviction
- Appeal against sentence
- Miscarriage of justice
- Counter-intuitive expert evidence
- Judge's summing up
- Mitigation for background and cultural factors