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Mar 16, 2021 · Blake Davis is sentenced to a maximum five years and three months for the samurai sword killing of a man who attacked him during a botched home invasion in inner-Sydney.
Mar 16, 2021 · Aspiring actor and stuntman Blake Davis has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for killing rapper Jett McKee with a samurai sword after a botched drug robbery.
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- Candace Sutton
- The Notorious Flexibility of 'Reasonableness'
- The Question of Perception
- The Case of The Boxing Champion
- Hindsight Another Difficulty in The Courtroom
Andrew Dyer, Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney Law School, says the division between self-defence and excessive self-defence turns on the question of reasonableness. "Reasonableness is a notoriously flexible concept," Mr Dyer said. "When juries apply that concept, there's no certainty as to how they will apply it, and so different juries can ...
Blake Davis insisted he was trying to save his girlfriend, but claimed to have no memory of swinging the sword. During an unsuccessful bail application pending an appeal, Justice Natalie Adams said the only way the jury could have acquitted Davis was if he gave clear evidence of the circumstances as he perceived them. Earlier in sentencing, she rej...
Craig Charles Pitts was a man who satisfied the first limb of the self-defence test, but whose conduct after his Redfern door was kicked down by two men in 2011 was found to be not reasonable. One of the men was former Australian boxing champion John Marceta, and the other wanted to buy cannabis, as he had done in the past. Pitts, recognising Mr Ma...
One of the trickiest parts of self-defence cases is that a person's actions in the heat of the moment are scrutinised so heavily in hindsight by the court. But Mr Dyer said the law recognises that difficulty. "It's a well established principle of self-defence law that if you're the jury, you don't judge the accused too harshly," he said. "So in oth...
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Feb 26, 2021 · Blake Davis, 31, was last year found guilty by a jury of manslaughter over the August 2018 death of Jett McKee. The 30-year-old rapper threatened Davis and his girlfriend Hannah Quinn with a fake ...
Mar 16, 2021 · 3:57pm Mar 16, 2021. A Sydney man has been sentenced to at least two years and nine months in jail for the manslaughter of an aspiring rapper with a samurai sword. Blake Davis killed Jett McKee ...
May 7, 2021 · Her boyfriend, Blake Davis, was previously jailed for at least two years and three months after chasing and striking the ice-fuelled armed robber McKee in the head with a sword in Forest Lodge in ...
Mar 16, 2021 · Blake Davis, 31, killed aspiring rapper Jett McKee on August 10, 2018, after McKee, high on the drug ‘ice’, burst into his Forest Lodge home wearing a balaclava and armed with a replica pistol ...
