R v Rodden [2022] NSWSC 1229

Supreme Court New South Wales

Medium Neutral Citation: R v Rodden [2022] NSWSC 1229 Hearing dates: 22 July 2022 Date of orders: 22 July 2022 Decision date: 27 July 2022 Jurisdiction: Common Law Before: Fagan J Decision: Jury questions answered "No". Catchwords: CRIME – complicity – joint criminal enterprise – directions to the jury – whether accused joined a joint criminal enterprise between four men to assault the deceased – joinder said to arise tacitly at the scene of the crime – whether the accused had to be aware of the fourth assailant in order to agree in the common purpose – consideration of conspiracy cases regarding agreement with unknown co-conspirators – no prior communication by the accused to any assailant of intention to join the criminal enterprise Cases Cited: Ex parte Coffey; Re Evans and Another [1971] 1 NSWLR 434 Gerakiteys v The Queen (1984) 153 CLR 317; [1984] HCA 8 Huynh v The Queen (2013) 214 CLR 1; [2013] HCA 6 KA v R [2015] NSWCCA 111 R v Anthony [1965] 2 QB 189 R v Griffiths [1966] 1 QB 589 R v McDonald [1963] BCJ No 79; 10 CCC (2d) 488 R v Meyrick (1929) 21 Cr App R 94 R v Simmonds [1969] 1 QB 685 Saffron v The Queen (1988) 17 NSWLR 395 Category: Principal judgment Parties: Regina (Crown) Colin Stephen Crane (accused) James Peter Crane (accused) Simon Alexander Rodden (accused) Adam David Symons (accused) Beau Andrew McDonald (accused) Guy Robertson (accused) Jake William McDonough (accused) Representation: Counsel: G Turner with K Prince (Crown) P Young SC (accused C.Crane) S Boland (accused J.Crane) T Edwards (accused Rodden) J Trevallion (accused Symons) T Hughes (accused McDonald) W Flynn (accused Robertson) N Steel (accused McDonough) File Number(s): 2018/228604; 2019/00134906; 2019/00181340; 2017/00329279; 2017/00386819; 2017/00387058; 2017/00387048