CRIMINAL LAW — application for directed verdict of not guilty — constructive murder — murder felony rule — joint criminal enterprise — interaction of principles — fire in clandestine methylamphetamine laboratory — co-offender killed in fire — no evidence of who committed act causing death — no evidence to exclude possibility that deceased committed the act causing death — whether joint criminal enterprise catches every act committed by co-offender — principal in the second degree — derivative liability — deceased could not be guilty of his own homicide — manslaughter by unlawful and dangerous act — causation — whether chain of causation broken by act of deceased
Case Details
Citation[2014] NSWSC 1710
CourtNSWSC
JurisdictionNew South Wales
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