Leave to lodge additional ground of appeal in terms of section 110(4) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995:- On 21 January 2005 the appellant was convicted of murder after trial. On 11 February 2005 he was sentenced to detention without limit of time with a punishment part of 20 years specified by the trial judge. On 2 August 2005 the appellant lodged a note of appeal in which he sought to appeal against both conviction and sentence. Leave to appeal was granted ...
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Bill of Suspension and Appeal Against Conviction:-The appellant was convicted after trial before a sheriff and jury at Lanark of being concerned in the production of cannabis contrary to section 4(2) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. He was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment in relation to that charge and 6 months imprisonment in respect of a failure to appear at an earlier trial diet to run consecutive to the drugs charge. Here the appellant appealed against his conviction in respect of t ...
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Referral by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission:- On 9 February2004 following a trial at the High Court at Glasgow the appellant was convicted of a charge of murder. The appellant appealed against his conviction and the appeal was refused on 26 January 2006. The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission made a reference to the appeal court and the appellant tabled several grounds of appeal against conviction in relation to the reasonableness of the jury’s verdict, dock ident ...
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Criminal Note of Appeal Against Conviction:- The appellant, along with his co-accused John Penman Muldoon, went to trial on an indictment containing 85 charges. The jury ultimately convicted the appellant of 18 charges and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment. The appellant appealed against his conviction on various grounds including inter alia:- (1) failures by the Crown to properly disclose documents within the Kerelaw Document Room at Ayr Police Office and the restrictions which were p ...
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Criminal Appeal Against Sentence:- On 19 October 2001 the appellant, a British national, was arrested attempting to board a plane bound for Taiwan at Don Muang Airport in Bangkok. In his possession was a bag containing 3.3kg of high purity heroin. On 19 September 2002 the appellant was convicted of drug trafficking, however, on account of his co-operation with the Thai authorities in the initial stages of the police investigation a death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. The ...
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Criminal Note of Appeal Against Conviction and Sentence:- In May 2010 at the High Court at Livingston the appellant was found guilty after trial of the following charge:- "Between 29 November 2007 and 11 December 2007, both dates inclusive, at 1/4 Royston Mains Place, Edinburgh you ALAN CAMERON did assault Heather Joanne Stacey or Egan or Williamson, formerly residing there, by means to the Prosecutor unknown and did cause her injury as a result of which she died there and you did murder her. ...
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Criminal Note of Appeal Against Conviction:- On 31 August 2010, at the High Court in Glasgow, the appellant was unanimously found guilty after trial of a charge of attempted murder by repeatedly kicking and stamping on WMcA’s head and body. Two co-accused had previously pleaded guilty to their involvement in the incident. At the trial the Crown sought to rely on the identification of the appellant by two police officers from CCTV evidence recovered from cameras at Shipbank Lane i ...
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Criminal Note of Appeal Against Conviction:- On 12 November 2009, the appellant went on trial at the High Court at Glasgow charged with inter alia murder and assault. His co-accused were his two brothers Ryan and Andrew, and two others, Brian Smith and James Gardiner. On 9 December 2009 the appellant was convicted by a majority verdict of the culpable homicide of Brian Costello (charge 4) and by a unanimous verdict of the assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement of Derek Lawson (char ...
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Criminal Note of Appeal Against Conviction:- The appellant was convicted after trial of various sexual offences directed against the two granddaughters of the appellant’s then partner. The appellant was convicted of lewd and libidinous practices at common law when one of the girls was under 12 and contrary to section 6 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 when she was between 12 and 15. In relation to the second girl, the appellant was convicted of lewd and libidino ...
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Petition to the Nobile Officium of the High Court of Justiciary:- On 8 December 2009, the petitioner was convicted after trial of two charges of being concerned in the supply of amphetamine and cocaine contrary to section 4(3)(b) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. On 12 January 2010 the petitioner was sentenced to twelve years' imprisonment concurrently on each charge. The petitioner subsequently lodged a note of appeal containing four grounds, three relating to his conviction, the fourth in ...
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