A [name withheld] direction on voice identification evidence need not specifically state that only a few words were spoken where the direction quotes the words and their brevity is obvious. The sufficiency of the warning is assessed by whether it adequately directed attention to the critical aspects of the recognition evidence, not by reference to a different form of words that might have been used. A circumstantial evidence direction is not required for DNA evidence where the prosecution case is only partly circumstantial and the DNA evidence is not an indispensable intermediate step in the reasoning towards guilt.
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