Fitzgerald v. The Queen
Case No.
A9/2014
Case Information
Lower Court Judgment
16/08/2013 Supreme Court of South Australia (Court of Criminal Appeal) (Gray J, Sulan J, Blue J)
Catchwords
Evidence - Identification evidence - DNA evidence - Whether DNA evidence alone is sufficient to establish both presence and participation for purpose of joint enterprise liability in circumstances where no eye witnesses to crimes identified Appellant's presence - Whether reasonable to convict Appellant of murder in circumstances where expert gave evidence that "secondary transfer" of DNA was possible but that scientific understanding of "secondary transfer" was limited.
Documents
14/03/2014 Hearing (SLA, Canberra v/link to Adelaide)
27/03/2014 Notice of appeal
22/04/2014 Written submissions (Appellant)
22/04/2014 Chronology (Appellant)
13/05/2014 Written submissions (Respondent)
27/05/2014 Reply
19/06/2014 Hearing (Full Court, Canberra) (Audio-visual recording)
13/08/2014 Judgment (Judgment summary)