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Unreported Judgment
Appeal Determined - Special Leave Refused (PC/HCA)
Date of conviction of CBL and BCT, a de facto couple, of three counts of rape, two counts of grievous bodily harm, two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm, and one count of torture. The offences related to BCT’s young daughter. For his convictions, CBL was sentenced to an effective term of 16 years' imprisonment.
Appeal Determined (QCA)
[2014] QCA 93 [2014] 2 Qd R 331
02 May 2014
CBL’s appeal against convictions dismissed; leave to appeal against sentence refused. BCT’s appeal against convictions allowed, convictions quashed, retrial ordered; jury misdirected in respect of prior inconsistent statement of certain witness, the content of which was damaging to defence case: Muir and Gotterson JJA, Douglas J. BCT later pleaded guilty to and sentenced for one count of cruelty to child; leave to appeal against sentence refused in [2016] QCA 180.
Special Leave Refused (HCA)
[2015] HCATrans 89
17 Apr 2015
CBL’s application for special leave to appeal, on ground neither raised at trial nor agitated before Court of Appeal, refused; exceptional circumstances required for favourable exercise of court’s discretion in such a case not shown: Keane and Nettle JJ.
Appeal Status
Appeal Determined - Special Leave Refused (PC/HCA)
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