Sanchez v R [2009] NSWCCA 171

Reported Decision: 196 A Crim R 472

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal

CITATION: Sanchez v R [2009] NSWCCA 171

HEARING DATE(S): 2 June 2009

JUDGMENT DATE: 2 July 2009

JUDGMENT OF: Campbell JA at 1; Latham J at 87; Harrison J at 88

DECISION: Appeal dismissed.

CATCHWORDS: CRIMINAL LAW – evidence – confessions and admissions – right of silence – right at general law and under section 89 Evidence Act – whether trial judge's direction to the jury infringed the accused's right of silence – distinction between common law right of silence and section 89 Evidence Act - CRIMINAL LAW – appeal and new trial and inquiry after conviction – appeal and new trial – particular grounds – misdirection and non-direction – general matters – failure to take objection to misdirection infringing the accused's right of silence – operation of rule 4 Criminal Appeal Rules – whether misdirection as to the right of silence is a fundamental error leading to a miscarriage of justice - WORDS AND PHRASES – "right of silence" – "right to silence"

Criminal Appeal Act 1912 LEGISLATION CITED: Criminal Appeal Rules Evidence Act 1995 (Cth)

CATEGORY: Principal judgment

Germakian v R [2007] NSWCCA 373; (2007) 70 NSWLR 467 Glennon v The Queen (1994) 179 CLR 1 Jones v R [2005] NSWCCA 443 Keung, Bow, Liu v The Queen [2008] NSWCCA 193 Petty v The Queen (1991) 173 CLR 95 Picken v The Queen [2007] NSWCCA 319 CASES CITED : R v Button [2002] NSWCCA 159; (2002) 54 NSWLR 455; (2002) 129 A Crim R 242 R v Director of Serious Fraud Office; Ex parte Smith [1993] AC 1 R v Matthews (NSWCCA, 28 May 1996, unreported) R v Reeves (1992) 29 NSWLR 109 Regina v ITA [2003] NSWCCA 174; (2003) 139 A Crim R 340 RPS v The Queen [2000] HCA 3; (2000) 199 CLR 620 Wilde v The Queen (1988) 164 CLR 365