Jenkins v The Queen

[2004] HCA 57
Judgment date
Case number
M307/2003
Before
Gleeson CJ, Gummow, Hayne, Callinan, Heydon JJ
Catchwords

Criminal law – Direction to jury - Accomplice warning - Prosecution witness pleaded guilty to criminal offences related to charges against appellant - Testimony of witness substantially undisputed - Defence did not seek to attack credit of witness - Defence case relied in part on evidence of witness - No warning sought at trial as to reliability of witness - Whether trial judge obliged to warn jury that it would be dangerous to convict on uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice - Whether trial judge obliged to warn jury that evidence was potentially unreliable and must be subjected to careful scrutiny.

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