In an appeal against conviction in a judge-alone trial on the ground that the verdict is unreasonable, the appellate court must undertake an independent examination of the whole evidence and decide whether it was open to the judge to be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of guilt, making full allowance for the trial judge's advantage in seeing and hearing the evidence. An appellant must identify weaknesses in the evidence and demonstrate that those weaknesses reduced the probative value of the evidence such that there is a significant possibility an innocent person was convicted; it is not sufficient merely to show discrepancies or inadequacies in the evidence.
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