Where the prosecution's case relies significantly on lies allegedly told by the accused as evidence of consciousness of guilt, the trial judge must give an Edwards direction identifying the conditions for using those lies as evidence of guilt, and a Zoneff warning in respect of other alleged lies going only to credibility, even where neither counsel seeks such a direction. The failure to do so will constitute a miscarriage of justice where there is a reasonable possibility the jury used impermissible reasoning. A selective silence or conscious omission from a detailed account may be treated as a 'lie' for the purposes of the Edwards framework.
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