23 Mar 2016
S (CA509/2015) v R [2016] NZCA 81
- Citation
- [2016] NZCA 81
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The trial judge's directions were legally correct and appropriate under s92 Evidence Act 2006; the failure of defence counsel to specifically put the motive-to-lie suggestion to the complainant justified the judge's cautionary comment; and there was a rational basis for the jury to distinguish between incidents such that the acquittal on the first charge was not impermissibly inconsistent with conviction on the second. The appeal is dismissed.