Catchwords
Criminal law – Evidence – Exclusionary rule – Where appellant convicted upon verdict of jury – Where note suggesting juror physically coerced into changing verdict found in jury room after jury discharged – Whether evidence of unlawful coercion of juror by fellow juror admissible – Whether Sheriff should be ordered to conduct inquiry.
Words and phrases – "exclusionary rule", "free and frank deliberation", "physical coercion".
Criminal Appeals Act 2004 (WA) – s 30(3)(c).
Criminal Code (WA) – s 123.
Juries Act 1957 (WA) – ss 56A, 56B.