NSW Caselaw
Supreme Court New South Wales
Medium Neutral Citation: R v Xie (No 18) [2015] NSWSC 2129 Decision date: 28 July 2015 Jurisdiction: Common Law - Criminal Before: Fullerton J Decision: Evidence admissible Catchwords: CRIMINAL LAW – admissibility – DNA evidence – whether evidence of similarity in allele numbers in mixed contributor DNA profiles is admissible as expert opinion evidence – whether probative value outweighed by danger of unfair prejudice – whether the jury invited to engage in coincidence reasoning Legislation Cited: Criminal Procedure Act 1986 (NSW) Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) Cases Cited: Adam v The Queen [2001] HCA 57; (2001) 207 CLR 96 Aytugrul v The Queen [2012] HCA 15; 247 CLR 170 Dasreef Pty Ltd v Hawchar [2011] HCA 21; 243 CLR 588 DPP v Tuite [2014] VSC 662 Gilham v R [2012] NSWCCA 131; 224 A Crim R 22 Honeysett v R [2014] HCA 29; 253 CLR 122 Marsh v R [2015] NSWCCA 154 R v Dlugosz; R v Pickering; R v S(MD) [2013] 1 Cr App R 32 R v Xie (No 4) [2014] NSWSC 500 Category: Procedural and other rulings Parties: The Crown Lian Bin (Robert) Xie (Accused) Representation: Counsel: M Tedeschi QC / K Ratcliffe (Crown) G Turnbull SC / L Fernandez (Accused)
Solicitors: Director of Public Prosecutions (Crown) Kidman Legal (Accused) File Number(s): 2011/147183
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