What is enough to change the verdict of a jury?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Thomson, 1995 CanLII 8936 (BC CA):
McIntyre J. referred to what Ritchie J. had said in McMartin v. The Queen, 1964 CanLII 43 (SCC), [1965] 1 C.C.C. 142 at p. 152, 46 D.L.R. (2d) 372, [1964] S.C.R. 484: "It is enough, in my view, if the proposed evidence is of sufficient strength that it might reasonably affect the verdict of a jury."
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