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Nyoka v S (CC03/2022) [2023] ZAWCHC 121 (11 May 2023)
High Court bail refusal in a Schedule 6 matter involving murder and related charges. The court held the applicant failed to prove exceptional circumstances.
Chonco v S (A30/2019) [2021] ZAGPJHC 65 (9 June 2021)
Appeal against conviction dismissed. The High Court held that the state witnesses credibly identified the appellant in daylight and rejected his alibi as improbable.
S v Dingela and Others (CC25/18) [2019] ZAECBHC 12 (10 May 2019)
High Court judgment on murder, confession admissibility, and a single-witness identification in a taxi-violence killing.
S v Hlela and Others (CC27/96) [1997] ZAECHC 1 (4 February 1997)
The court found that the State failed to discharge its onus of proving beyond reasonable doubt that the accused were the perpetrators of the crimes charged. The identification evidence was unreliable due to procedural irregularities in the identification parade, lack of independent witnesses, and the dangers of dock identification. The witnesses were not independent and were affected by the ongoing taxi association conflict. The accused's alibi defences were not shown to be palpably false and could not be rejected as not reasonably possibly true. In the absence of credible and reliable identi…
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