| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2003] All ER (D) 03 (May) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Pill LJ, Gray and Roderick Evans JJ |
| Representation | Anthony McGeorge (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant. |
| Ian Acheson (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 1 May 2003 |
Catchwords
Criminal evidence and procedure - Evidence - Previous convictions - Defendant's attack on victim's character substantially true - Previous convictions admitted - Correctness of admission of previous convictions.
The Case
On the facts of the instant case, it had been within a judge's discretion, and in the interests of justice, for him to admit the defendant's previous convictions after the defendant had made a substantially true attack on the victim's character.
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