Bangoura v The King

[2024] VSCA 292

Victorian Court of Appeal

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Catchwords

1. Criminal Law
2. › Appeal
3. › Conviction
4. › Unsafe and unsatisfactory verdict
5. › Complainant's evidence containing inconsistencies, discrepancies and untruths
6. › Whether jury acting rationally must have entertained reasonable doubt
7. › CCTV footage showing complainant and applicant in same room after offending
8. › Whether complainant recognised applicant
9. › Criminal Procedure Act 2009 (Vic), s 276(1)(a)
1. Criminal Law
2. › Evidence
3. › Incriminating conduct
4. › Lies told by accused in police interview
5. › Whether lies reasonably capable of being viewed as evidence of incriminating conduct
6. › Whether admissibility required separate consideration for each charge
7. › Jury Directions Act 2015 (Vic), ss 18, 20, 21, 22
1. Criminal Law
2. › Evidence
3. › Directions to jury
4. › Incriminating conduct
5. › Multi-charge indictment
6. › Whether direction required instruction to consider level of satisfaction separately for each charge
7. › Jury Directions Act 2015 (Vic), s 21

Quick Take

Where a single offender is alleged to have committed all offences on a single occasion, incriminating conduct directions need not require the jury to consider separately whether the precondition for incriminating conduct reasoning is met for each individual charge.