A complainant's criminal record, daily drug use (including immediately before giving evidence), false statements made in pretext calls, and allegedly implausible beliefs do not necessarily taint evidence so as to render a guilty verdict unreasonable, where those matters were fully ventilated before the jury and the scope of the jury's advantage in seeing and hearing the complainant was relatively wide. Observations of trial judges concerning a witness's credibility are irrelevant to an unreasonable verdict ground of appeal.
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