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Criminal law RPA 0101/13/HC/NYA

UBUSHINJACYAHA v GAHIGI

The High Court dismissed criminal appeals by the prosecution and Gahigi Didace, upheld the conviction, and left the original sentence unchanged.

  • Appeal procedure
  • Evidentiary value of witness testimony
  • Sentencing of minors
  • Requirements for admissibility of appeal
  • Criminal-appeal
  • Eyewitness-testimony
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Criminal law RPAA0181/ 10/CS

THE PROSECUTION v MWISENEZA

The Supreme Court of Rwanda reduced Mwiseneza’s sentence from 10 to 8 years, accepting his late guilty plea and his age of 14 at the time of the offence.

  • Child defilement
  • Penalty reduction
  • Juvenile offender rehabilitation
  • Child-defilement
  • Juvenile-justice
  • Penalty-reduction
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Criminal law RPAA 0014/10/CS

UBUSHINJACYAHA v. DUSABEYEZU

The Supreme Court held that sentence reduction for minority is separate from reduction for admission of guilt, and reduced Dusabeyezu’s sentence to seven years.

  • Reduction of sentence
  • Admission of guilt
  • Juvenile offender
  • Sentencing principles
  • Criminal-law
  • Juvenile-justice
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Criminal law RPAA 0014/10/CS

THE PROSECUTION v. DUSABEYEZU

The Supreme Court of Rwanda held that a minor’s sentence reduction does not bar a separate reduction for a sincere guilty plea, and reduced the sentence to seven years.

  • Child defilement
  • Penalty reduction
  • Mitigating circumstances
  • Guilty plea
  • Juvenile sentencing
  • Guilty-plea
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