14 Apr 2023
MADHUR SHARMA v R [2023] NZSC 34
- Citation
- [2023] NZSC 34
- Court
- Supreme Court
Leave to appeal was dismissed because the issues were fact specific and not of general or public importance, there was no real risk of miscarriage of justice, and the jury could rationally have convicted on charge five alone on the basis of corroborative DNA evidence while rejecting other charges due to frailties in the complainant's evidence; R v Dhillon was distinguishable and the separate trials direction was not the main basis for the decision.