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Brooke Christie Rolleston v The Queen - SC 17/2019

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Summary

Criminal Appeal – Whether a member of the jury appeared biased – Whether the Court of Appeal erred in dismissing the appeal against conviction.

Result

A Leave to appeal is granted to the applicants (Rolleston v R [2018] NZCA 611).
B The approved question is whether the Court of Appeal was correct to dismiss the conviction appeals.
21 March 2019
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A  The application to cross-examine the foreperson is dismissed.
B  The appeals are dismissed.
C  Existing suppression orders in respect of the minutes issued in relation to this matter remain in place but are varied to continue until further order of this Court.                                                                                                                             
19 November 2019

Date of Hearing

13 November 2019

Judges

Winkelmann CJ, Glazebrook, O'Regan, Ellen France and Williams JJ

Hearing Transcripts

Related Documents

District Court decision — Not publicly available

Court of Appeal decision — ROLLESTON & ROCHE v R [2018] NZCA 611 [19 December 2018]

Leave judgment - leave granted — BROOKE CHRISTIE ROLLESTON v R [2019] NZSC 32 [21 March 2019] (PDF 30 KB)

Supreme Court - order made — BROOKE CHRISTIE ROLLESTON v R [2019] NZSC 61 [26 June 2019] (PDF 148 KB)

Additional document — Transcript hearing date 13 November 2019

Substantive judgment — BROOKE CHRISTIE ROLLESTON v R [2019] NZSC 129 [19 November 2019] (PDF 36 KB)

Additional document — BROOKE CHRISTIE ROLLESTON v R [2020] NZSC 113 (reasons) [19 October 2020] (PDF 384 KB)

Additional document — Media Release BROOKE CHRISTIE ROLLESTON v R [2020] NZSC 113 [19 October 2020] reasons (PDF 190 KB)