10 Aug 2016
SENIOR v R [2016] NZCA 389
- Citation
- [2016] NZCA 389
- Court
- Court of Appeal
Extension of time to appeal granted; conviction and sentence appeals dismissed because (1) trial judge's s122 direction, though not a formulaic 'owning' phrase, adequately identified risks of long delay and prejudice and was reinforced by counsel submissions and materials to jury; (2) severance was rightly refused as the probative value of cross‑admissible propensity evidence showing a pattern of offending against adolescent girls outweighed prejudice; (3) alleged inconsistent verdicts were rationally explicable on the evidence and jury assessments; (4) prosecutor's remarks were unfortunate a…