Law Notes Litigation - Criminal Procedure Rules Notes
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Right to silence
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9a Interrogation of suspects: Rights to silence 1
1# What should police say to accused to inform them of right to silence? 1
2#: If accused remains silent vs partially silent? What trial judge must do 3
Appendix: CB Sanchez 5
Appendix: s 89 Evidence Act 6
See s 139 discussion in s 138 notes. Police before interrogation are required to explicitly state that the suspect does not have to say anything and anything said could be used against the person in evidence. Requirement to caution when you are in custody:
Effect of a lack of caution before someone is questioned:
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Situation | If the accused remains silent / partially silent on matters, what law protects this? |
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Law | Person has both a common law right to silence ( petty v Queen; Glennon; Sanchez) and a right to silence under s 89 EA.
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These notes aim to set out the relevant legal principles, and material facts from cases in order to demonstrate how those legal principles have been applied. Because of how heavily statute-focused this topic is, in some places I've extracted the relevant statute in the text or in a 'comment'.
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