28 Nov 2019
BALLANTYNE v R [2019] NZCA 596
- Citation
- [2019] NZCA 596
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Extension of time to appeal granted but appeal dismissed because the alleged non-disclosures and forensic lacunae did not demonstrate a miscarriage of justice: missing ESR pages were either disclosed elsewhere or not material; many samples were not tested for legitimate forensic reasons and/or would not have been probative (mitochondrial testing unavailable domestically, samples saturated with blood, residential hair deposition confounds attribution); contested forensic points (blood congealment, boot-heel stain, unidentified prints, absence of DNA on weapons or in wound) were either explored…