Is a jury's duty to strip the evidence of non-essentials and direct it to the case put forward by the defence?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from R. v. Deegan, 1979 ABCA 198 (CanLII):
The jury were entitled to have his trained legal mind strip the evidence of non-essentials and "present to the jury the evidence in its proper relation to the matters requiring factual decision, and direct it also to the case put forward by the prosecution and the answer of the defence, or such answer as the evidence permitted". (per Taschereau, J. in Azoulay v. The Queen (supra) at p. 100).
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