Lines v Norris

[2008] NTSC 27

Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

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For Australian Law.

1. Criminal Law
2. › Appeal against conviction
3. › whether the accomplice warning from the trial magistrate was sufficient to accommodate the potential unreliability of a witness
4. › whether the trial magistrate erred by treating the evidence of one witness as capable of corroborating another witness
5. › unsafe and unsatisfactory - appeal dismissed
1. Criminal Law
2. › Appeal against sentence
3. › whether the trial magistrate erred in sentencing the appellant on the basis of an uncharged offence
4. › whether the trial magistrate properly considered the principle of parity
5. › whether sentencing process miscarried due to error in sentencing of appellant’s co-offenders
6. › appeal allowed
7. › appellant re-sentenced
1. Criminal Code s 210; s 213; 251
1. Justices Act s 176A

Citation[2008] NTSC 27

CourtNTSC

JurisdictionNorthern Territory

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