Lucy Letby: the judge’s direction: Difference between revisions

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-{{a|crime|}}=====''That'' judge’s direction=====
+{{a|crime|}}{{drop|I|n his summing}} up to the jury, Mr Justice Goss instructed the jury:
-Mr Justice Goss instructed the jury:
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-“You don’t need to be know how she did it as long as you are sure she did it”.}}
+“If you are sure that someone on the unit was deliberately harming a baby or babies, you do not have to be sure of the precise harmful act or acts. In some instances, there may have been more than one.
+To find the defendant guilty, however, you must be sure that she deliberately did some harmful act to the baby the subject of the count on the indictment and the act or acts was accompanied by the intent and, in the case of murder, was causative of death.”}}
 As a principle of law, this is undoubtedly correct, and serves to resolve a probabilistic paradox which might otherwise arrise.