| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2004] All ER (D) 358 (Apr) |
| Neutral Citation: | [2004] EWCA Crim 1074 |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Rix LJ, Keith J and Judge Paget QC |
| Representation | Anton Lodge QC (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant. |
| James Pickup QC (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 30 April 2004 |
Catchwords
Criminal evidence and procedure - Trial - Summing up - Direction to jury - Character of accused - Good character - Judge's discretion.
The Case
In the circumstances of the instant case, where the defendant, who had minor and irrelevant previous convictions, was convicted of murder, the judge's failure properly and fully to direct the jury as to the effect of the defendant's good character in relation to both credibility and propensity rendered unsafe his conviction for murder, notwithstanding that he had, by his own admission, been involved in an earlier and connected course of violence.
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