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Criminal law [2016] ScotHC HCJAC_81

Boath v HM Advocate

Boath v HM Advocate [2016] ScotHC HCJAC_81 (21 September 2016)

The Appeal Court refused Boath’s conviction appeal for armed robbery, holding there was no objective support for defective representation claims, but reduced his sentence from 9 to 7 years.

  • Defective legal representation
  • Identification evidence
  • Dna evidence
  • Sentencing
  • Armed robbery
  • Defective-representation
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