Rhodes (a pseudonym) v The King

• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Evidence
  3. › Coincidence evidence
  4. › Cross-admissibility
  5. › Whether evidence of complainants has significant probative value
  6. › Whether similarities between accounts unremarkable
  7. › Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), ss 98, 101
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Evidence
  3. › Coincidence evidence
  4. › Proof of acts
  5. › Whether evidence of receiving explicit images significantly probative of whether act of sexual penetration occurred
  6. › Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), s 98
• 1. Criminal Law
  2. › Evidence
  3. › Coincidence evidence
  4. › Proof of state of mind
  5. › Whether knowledge of one complainant's age rationally probative of knowledge of different complainant's age
  6. › Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), s 98
• 1. Appeal
  2. › Interlocutory appeal
  3. › Standard of review
  4. › Whether trial judge's ruling on admissibility of coincidence evidence involved error of kind described in House v The King

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