What is an obligation of a judge presiding in a criminal jury trial to review and relate the substantial features of the evidence adduced?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Srun, 2019 ONCA 453 (CanLII):
Equally uncontroversial is the obligation of the judge presiding in a criminal jury trial to review the substantial features of the evidence adduced and to relate it to the issues raised so that the jury appreciates the value and effect of that evidence: Azoulay v. The Queen, 1952 CanLII 4 (SCC), [1952] 2 S.C.R. 495, at p. 498. Invariably, juries are instructed that they are to make their decision on the basis of their individual and collective recollections of the evidence, not that of the trial judge or counsel.
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