Citation: R. Pittiman, [] 1 S. Date: Docket: Roopnarine Pittiman. Charron J. Roopnarine Pittiman Appellant. Her Majesty The Queen Respondent. Indexed as: R. Neutral citation: SCC 9.
File No. Held : The appeal should be dismissed. Before an appellate court may interfere with a verdict on the basis that it is inconsistent with other verdicts, the court must find that the impugned verdict is unreasonable. The onus of establishing that a verdict is unreasonable on the basis of inconsistency is a difficult one for an accused to meet. In each case, the question is whether the verdicts are irreconcilable such that no reasonable jury, properly instructed, could possibly have rendered them on the evidence.
In this case, there is a rational basis for reconciling the different verdicts. There were also two pieces of evidence which directly implicated the accused and not the others. Cases Cited. Approved: R. McShannock , 55 C. Wile , 58 C. McLaughlin , 15 C. Tillekaratna , C. Bergeron , C. Harvey , C. Statutes and Regulations Cited.
Criminal Code , R. Appeal dismissed. James Lockyer , for the appellant. Leslie Paine , for the respondent. The judgment of the Court was delivered by. Following a trial by judge and jury, the appellant was convicted of the offence and the co-accused were acquitted. His appeal was therefore dismissed and his conviction affirmed , C. Borins J. The appellant comes to this Court as of right under s. I agree with the conclusion reached by the majority of the Court of Appeal and, consequently, would dismiss the appeal.
Sometime before p. On her way, she met the appellant, his brother Ryan Pittiman, and their friends, Beswick Goffe and Maheshwar Inderjeet. The four men invited her into the basement of the Pittiman house. She went willingly. She sat in the basement on a couch with the appellant and Ryan on either side of her. Goffe was behind her, and Inderjeet sat on another couch watching television. The complainant said that this did not bother her.
