29 Jul 2019
SAMI v R [2019] NZCA 340
- Citation
- (2019) 29 CRNZ 252
- Court
- Court of Appeal
The Court held the summing-up and Crown closing did not produce a miscarriage of justice: use of statistics and of jurors' life experience was within permissible bounds and judicial directions on expert evidence were adequate; the proposed fresh evidence by Dr Hood was not sufficiently cogent or fresh to affect the safety of conviction and leave to adduce it was declined; conviction was upheld; however the sentence was reduced from five years to four years and six months to reflect additional mitigation (youth, separation from infant child, language and family circumstances).