Taking- of Police Statements
"This is another case of not giving a proper warning. The police must understand that a proper warning must be given before a statement is taken from a suspected person, and I shall continue to call attention to every case where this is not done," remarked Mr Justice Smith in the Wellington Supreme Court. He was about to sentence two Maori youths from Wairoa who had pleaded guilty to an offence, and said that from the depositions it would appear that the warning given them when a statement was obtained from them was at any rate, defective. They should have been warned that they need not make any statement at all and that if they did make one if could be used in evidence against them. Mr Birks, who appeared for the Crown, intimated that he would convey His Honour's remarks to the right; quarter.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 67, 26 April 1944, Page 5
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149Taking- of Police Statements Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 67, 26 April 1944, Page 5
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