Graham v. The Queen

Lower Court Judgment

24/07/2015 Supreme Court of Queensland (Court of Appeal) (Morrison JA, Atkinson J, Applegarth J)

[2015] QCA 137

Catchwords

Criminal law – misdirection and non-direction – effect of misdirection or non?direction – where the appellant was convicted after a trial of attempted murder – where the defence of self - defence was raised at trial under ss 271(1), 271(2) and 272(1) of the Criminal Code – where the trial judge gave detailed directions to the jury about each form of self-defence – where the trial judge provided further directions to the jury at their request – where no redirection was sought at trial – whether the trial judge failed to properly direct the jury as to the defence of self-defence under ss 271(1), 271(2) and 272(1) of the Criminal Code.

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