Recognition evidence based on social media images viewed before the offending is fundamentally different from post-offence social media identification and does not attract the same concerns about suggestibility and prejudgment identified in [name withheld] v Police and R v [name withheld]. Identification evidence against one co-accused may be cross-admissible against others where their familial or friendship relationships make it improbable that witnesses would independently and wrongly identify persons connected to each other.
The full text is available to signed-in members, including the 1 later case that cites this judgment.
1 of the 1 citing case carries a classified treatment. How each court treated it is available to signed-in members.