| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2004] All ER (D) 462 (Jul) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | May LJ, Gray and Hallett JJ |
| Representation | Richard Ferguson QC (assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals) for the defendant. |
| David Waters QC and Stephen Dennison (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 26 July 2004 |
Catchwords
Criminal evidence and procedure - Evidence - Character of accused - Evidence tending to show co-accused's bad character - Cut-throat defence - Effect of character directions on defence case - Safety of conviction.
The Case
The defendant's conviction for murder was safe in case where he ran a cut-throat defence against his co-defendant because the judge had rightly directed the jury that the co-defendant's previous conviction for manslaughter was relevant to the defendant's defence but not to the prosecution's case against the co-defendant.
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