Is a failure to cross-examine a factor in assessing the credibility of the accused?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from R v. Dennis James Oland, 2015 NBQB 248 (CanLII):
For these reasons, I intend to direct the jury that the failure to cross-examine is a factor to be considered among all the other factors in assessing the credibility of the accused, a direction similarly given, as I understand, by the trial judge in R v. Quansah, supra (See at para. 128).
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