Prosecutors framing presentments arising from a single incident or closely connected transactions should include only those counts necessary to adequately expose the criminality and give the sentencing judge adequate scope, rather than charging every possible offence including aiding and abetting counts. Overloaded presentments increase the risk of judicial error, complicate trials, and burden judges and juries. The rape conviction misdirection identified in Worsnop v The Queen concerning belief in consent continues to require convictions to be set aside.
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