28 Apr 2017
R v LIEV & ORS [2017] NZHC 830
- Citation
- [2017] NZHC 830
- Court
- High Court
On the material before the Court at this preliminary hearing the Crown has established sufficient non-hearsay and corroborative evidence to satisfy the s 22A threshold for admissibility of the text messages in issue so they are not ruled inadmissible at this stage; questions of precise timing, attribution and whether individual texts are "statements" or were made in furtherance of the conspiracy may be revisited at trial. Photographs depicting Head Hunters regalia are relevant and probative to the Crown's case linking defendants to an organised unit and their probative value is not outweighed…