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'Unequal' jury instructions in criminal case lead to retrial

Thursday, January 26, 2017 @ 7:00 PM | By Michael Benedict

Judges presiding over criminal trials involving multiple counts must take special care to ensure their jury instructions warn specifically against the dangers of “propensity reasoning,” the B.C. Court of Appeal has...

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