| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2012] All ER (D) 74 (Feb) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Criminal Division |
| Judge: | Goldring LJ, Field J and Judge Nicholas Cooke QC (judgment delivered extempore) |
| Representation | Paul Taylor (instructed by Cooper Rollason) for the defendant. |
| Peter Clement (instructed by the Crown Prosecution Service) for the Crown. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 8 February 2012 |
Catchwords
Criminal law - Trial - Murder - Defendant shooting deceased through heart following confrontation in street - Defendant claiming shooting accidental - Judge summing up case without leaving self defence before jury - Defendant convicted - Whether judge erring - Whether conviction unsafe.
The Case
Criminal law Trial. The Court of Appeal, Criminal Division, held that the judge's failure to leave self defence before a jury where a defendant had deliberately shot a deceased through the heart had not rendered his conviction for murder unsafe.
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