Booth v The King

[2024] VSCA 318

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Catchwords

1. Criminal Law
2. › Appeal
3. › Conviction appeal
4. › Inconsistent verdicts
5. › Whether guilty verdicts inconsistent with acquittals on charges arising from same incident
6. › Whether guilty verdicts inconsistent with acquittals across different incidents
7. › Whether acquittals meant jury rejected complainant's credibility
8. › Whether verdicts explicable on basis of differing quality of evidence on consent and age
1. Criminal Law
2. › Appeal
3. › Conviction appeal
4. › Unreasonable verdict
5. › Whether complainant's evidence so unreliable that no reasonable jury could convict
6. › Whether discrepancies in evidence attributable to passage of time
7. › Whether jury entitled to accept evidence in part

Quick Take

In multi-count sexual offending cases, verdicts of guilt on some charges and acquittal on others are explicable where the quality of evidence on consent and the complainant's age differs across charges, and acquittals do not necessarily entail rejection of the complainant's credibility.

Case Details

Citation[2024] VSCA 318

CourtVSCA

JurisdictionVictoria

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